After The Tones Drop
After The Tones Drop
with Cinnamon
Healing Language That Hurts: How Good Intentions and Bad Metaphors Undermine Recovery
13 minutes Posted Feb 4, 2026 at 2:00 pm.
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Send us Fan Mail Episode 143: Healing Language That Hurts Some of the most damaging things we say about healing are said with the best intentions. In this short solocast, Cinnamon takes a hard look at the phrases we casually throw around when someone is hurting. Let it go. Move on. Put it behind you. You should be over this by now. She explains why this kind of language doesn’t heal. It shames. It implies erasure. And it quietly tells people they’re doing recovery wrong if the past still show...