Growth and healing ebb and flow just like the seasons of the natural world. Embracing these seasons allows us to live into them with greater ease and self-compassion as they unfold.
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Healing
Healing the whole person
The health of our physical bodies is vitally important in the health and healing of our mental, emotional, and spiritual selves, but it’s a connection we often overlook. Health and healing involves the whole person.
Continue readingLeaning into gentleness
Leaning into gentleness is a powerful way to enable and empower our movement toward healing and growth. Here’s what leaning into gentleness looks like for me. What does gentleness look like for you?
Continue readingHow not to talk to yourself when you’re hurting
How we talk to ourselves matters more than we think, and that’s even more true when we are hurting and vulnerable. This one shift in how we deal with our inner voices can make a huge difference in times of pain.
Continue readingExpectantly waiting for healing
The season of Advent is a good training ground for learning to live with expectant waiting—an active, hope-filled waiting—as we work toward healing and other outcomes that we can’t control. It teaches us to balance the need to work with active expectation toward our goals, while also accepting that they will ripen into being in their own time.
Continue readingCarving away old wounds
A current triggering situation in my life is giving me the chance to detach some triggers and find healthier ways of reacting while also healing old wounds as they are gently carved away.
Continue readingThe key to freedom
When we’re seeking freedom from life’s wounds and the pain they cause, the key to that freedom comes through taking full responsibility for our healing, even when the wounds are not our fault.
Continue readingThe path through death to healing
Healing from our losses in life is more like a resurrection or rebirth to new life than a resuscitation of an old one, and there is no resurrection without a death first. Easter reminds us of what this journey of death, the grave, and new life looks like as we apply that process to dealing with our grief and losses.
Continue readingYou are already worthy
Kintsugi living is about using life’s broken places as fuel for our continued growth as we heal, but healing is not a self-improvement project designed to make us worthy. Today’s post is a reminder that you are already worthy, whole, and enough just as you are!
Continue readingVulnerability is strength
The art of kintsugi is a beautiful illustration of how being vulnerable about our hurts makes us stronger as our acknowledgement is the first step toward healing.
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