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means The process of integrating the scattered or wounded parts of yourself into a unified, healthy sense of who you are.

from "Whole" comes from Old English "hāl," meaning sound, healthy, uninjured — the very same root that gives us "heal," "hale" (as in "hale and hearty"), and even "holy" (something set apart and intact). So to become whole is, etymologically, to become healed: not a New Age coinage but a thread running straight back through the language, where wholeness and health were always the same idea. "Becoming," from Old English "becuman" (to come to, to arrive at), adds the sense of a journey toward that intactness.