As someone who makes her living as a “healer” I’ve always been  a bit negative about the word “cure”. When I mentioned this to my friend she replied “why don’t you like the concept of curing? Surely if you are healed you are cured, the objectives are the same.” Well this got me to thinking so I thought id do some digging.

Given that I am a self confessed geek I am always interested in the dictionary definitions of words so I checked them out and interestingly enough where both the words “healing” and “cure” are obviously nouns the word “cure” is also a verb. It’s a doing word whereas the word “healing” is an adjective, a description.

Whilst very subtle that for me really sums up the difference between healing and curing. Cure tends to make me think of surgery and procedures. Things being done TO the body, not with the body.

So sticking with definitions for a moment according to the dictionary cure means the following “relief or recovery from a disease” or “to restore to health,”

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