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.
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Shifting our trauma-based beliefs
The trauma of the broken places in our lives can create unhelpful (and often unconscious) beliefs that hold us back. Recognizing and shifting those beliefs takes conscious effort, but it is possible!
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 readingThe gift of knowing my limits
One of the gifts of kintsugi gold from previous times of brokenness is knowing my limits and how to better navigate them. Those lessons are serving me well in current season of overwhelm.
Continue readingIn the wake of pain and the gold of care
Guest post author Callie J. Smith shares how care from and for others became the kintsugi gold in her life during a season of facing pain in the form of both grief and physical pain.
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 readingAcceptance leads to freedom
Accepting what is (even when we don’t like it and wish it were different) moves us from stuck to freedom where we can begin healing, creating something new, or addressing the life’s hard places.
Continue readingHandling the holes created by loss
A guest post from Callie J. Smith on how she is handling the holes left in her life by loss over the last couple of years and how the art of kintsugi has inspired her during this time.
Continue readingEmbodying hope in our scars
A meditation on the first week of Advent from the perspective of kintsugi living: When we are able to be vulnerable enough to let our scars show, we embody hope for others who are struggling by showing them that healing truly is possible.
Continue readingDiscovering what you’re made of
Just like we discover what chocolates are made of by breaking them open, we discover what we are made of when life breaks us open. Discovering what’s hidden inside us is a part of the gold of kintsugi living.
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