It’s easy to get tunnel vision and see only the beauty or only the broken places in our lives. The truth is that they both coexist all the time. Embracing them both at the same time is one of the gifts kintsugi living can teach us about healthier living.
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Practices of opening to grace

Our spiritual practices can often seem like added chores on our to-do lists, but they are actually practice in opening to grace and the voice of Spirit that can sustain in life’s ordinary times as well as in life’s most broken places.
Continue readingYou are already beautiful

The stones I work with remind me daily just how uniquely beautiful each of us already is. Healing adds more beauty, but you are already beautiful, even in the broken places. Re-discovering and embracing that truth can bring healing in itself.
Continue readingSavoring life’s sweetness: A gift of kintsugi gold

Even when life feels like a disaster zone of total brokenness, there are still small beauties and sweet moments all around us, if we pay attention. Learning to seek out and treasure that sweetness through gratitude and mindful appreciation is a gift that provides unexpectedly large dividends in the midst of brokenness and continues to grace each moment with greater beauty and peace long afterward. Learn more in today’s post about this gift of kintsugi gold and how to apply it in your life.
Continue readingFinding Christmas magic again

Setting realistic expectations about the holiday season can make it easier to still find the joy and blessings in this time of year.
Continue readingThe gift of cloudy days

My experience of the day all depends on where I put my attention. As you move through your days, what are you paying attention to?
Continue readingDiscovering the geode within

Geodes are rather dull and unremarkable on the outside, but once they are broken open, they are filled with such amazing beauty. You, too, are a geode with more beauty within than you have ever imagined!
Continue readingValue the healing, not the wounds

In kintsugi living, it is the healing and the gifts therein that are to be celebrated, not the wounds themselves!
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