A series of Essays
What if many of the practices we rely on to feel better are not wrong, but incomplete, and quietly fail to serve the purpose we believe they do?
The Traps We Call Healing is a series of reflective essays exploring the subtle traps hidden within concepts such as gratitude, healing, positivity, consciousness, and personal growth. Not as accusations, but as an invitation to look more closely at how easily coping turns into avoidance, and how often the management of improvement slowly replaces presence, depth, and real integration.
The essays are published freely as they are written. Each text reveals one trap at a time, allowing the book to emerge slowly, rather than all at once.
Here on the website, the chapters are released as articles, available to read for free in both Swedish and English.
The complete book, bringing all the traps together, will be released later in 2026.
Follow along as each layer is uncovered, one trap at a time.
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The traps of healing Essays
Läkningsfällan
Läkningsfällan En av de första paradoxer jag själv behövde se innan något egentligen kunde förändras var att i samma stund som jag började tala om läkning, hade jag också accepterat...
Läkningsfällan
Läkningsfällan
|Anna Wretling
The Healing Trap
The Healing Trap One of the first paradoxes I needed to see before anything could truly change was that the moment I began speaking about healing, I had also accepted...
The Healing Trap
The Healing Trap
|Anna Wretling
Tacksamhetsfällan
Tacksamhetsfällan Tacksamhet har på många sätt blivit ett av vår tids mest självklara begrepp. Det dyker upp i samtal om psykisk hälsa, i självhjälpslitteratur, i spirituella sammanhang och i vardagliga...
Tacksamhetsfällan
Tacksamhetsfällan
|Anna Wretling
The Gratefulness Trap
The Gratefulness Trap Gratitude has, in many ways, become one of the most self-evident concepts of our time. It appears in conversations about mental health, in self-help literature, in spiritual...
The Gratefulness Trap
The Gratefulness Trap
|Anna Wretling
Release 2026
The Traps We Call Healing
What if many of the practices we trust to heal us are not wrong, but subtly misdirected.
The Traps We Call Healing unfolds as a series of reflective essays, each revealing a quiet contradiction hidden inside familiar ideas like gratitude, positivity, healing, and growth. These texts do not reject these practices, but question what happens when they become strategies for coping rather than ways of being.
One essay is released at a time.
One assumption at a time is questioned.
The full book will be published in 2026, once all the traps have been revealed.