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.
Continue readingOur personal seasons of growth and healing
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Reclaiming suppressed pieces of ourselves
We often suppress pieces of who we are or what we love in the wake of heartache. Reclaiming one of those pieces of myself recently reminded how valuable those (seemingly small) pieces can be.
Continue readingKintsugi and the cookie jar
Guest post author Cathy Ross reflects on the gifts of kintsugi gold she has found in the healing that she is doing after the deeply painful loss of her husband.
Continue readingHealing 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 readingIt’s ok to break
Most of us try to hide our feelings of brokenness when we are suffering and in pain. This is an encouragement that it is ok to break because it is only through the breaking that we make our way to healing.
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 readingCataclysm or slow decay?
Recognizing the difference between a cataclysm or slow decay offers a clear path forward into the approach that will best serve us in healing from our specific place of brokenness.
Continue readingWhen healing hurts
Sometimes the sharp edges of the broken places in our lives make the work of healing painful. It’s the same with the sharp edges of the stones I work with, and that image (and experience) helps me better deal with the times when healing hurts.
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.
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