wtf is "healing?"

Here's my take as inspired by many of my favorite texts: Our western dominant culture characterizes healing as an individual attempt to cure or fix one’s internal malady. What if instead anxiety, grief, illness, etc don’t live inside of us, and rather move throughout our world as symptoms of disconnection?  What if healing is a lifelong process of interdependent and ecological balancing? We need each other to grow; we need healthy plants to nourish ourselves; plants need one another’s roots to thrive and our human exhales to photosynthesize. (love an accidental rhyme) In other words, healing cannot and does not happen in a vacuum or in one direction. 

  Since we don't individually "own" healing, we also don't own the things that desire healing. These things we call anxiety, depression, cancer, OCD, ADHD, exhaustion...(whatever!) are co created through culture. I so don't intend to imply that theses things don't profoundly affect us even to the point of death; I just mean to say that they have come to be through a "not right-ness" that is greater than us. There are so many empowering ways we can come into relationship with illness, whatever it is. But I wonder what we're missing when we ignoring the larger picture.

I believe that trauma and disease come from disconnection; interpersonal, internal, and ecological disconnection. Moreover, connection to our own selves, to others, and to the natural world symbiotically facilitates healing. But how can this happen in practice when we live in a hierarchical capitalist consumerist world? How can I actually symbiotically relate to nature? How can I look at a plant and really feel and see and understand its sentience; or a lizard, or a dog, or another human for that matter? How can I really practice a lifelong relationship with health and healing beyond individualism?