Part of kintsugi living is being able to acknowledge when a part of us dies even as we celebrate our re-birth as a stronger, wiser, and more capable version of ourselves.
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Holding onto hope in the gap
We are surrounded by stories of death and re-birth, and in every single one there is a gap between the two. As we collectively live in this gap, choosing one of these stories to anchor yourself in can help you keep hope alive as we wait for new life to emerge.
Continue readingBreaking apart or breaking open?
The images we use to describe our experience of brokenness to ourselves matter more than we think. In the midst of the pain of brokenness, it’s easy to default to thinking of ourselves as breaking apart and needing to be repaired, but sometimes even the most beautiful kintsugi can’t put the pieces back together again. There is more hope and possibility available to think instead about breaking open like a baby chick emerging from a broken shell. Focusing on the new life we are creating can offer us more space for growth and healing than a focus on the broken pieces we may be leaving behind. Are you choosing to see yourself as breaking apart or breaking open?
Continue readingEmbracing the small deaths
We all face small deaths throughout life in the deaths of relationships, the deaths of hopes and dreams, or the deaths of situations we wanted to hold onto. If we will let them, these smaller deaths can teach us how to let go of that which needs to die so we can embrace that which comes next.
Continue readingCelebrating death as the year ends
As one year dies and another is set to begin, I find myself reviewing the deaths that have happened in my own life over the last year and the new life that has sprung from the space made by those deaths.
Continue readingDeath and re-birth
For every new beginning, there is always an ending of some kind. I think that’s why I am so fond of metaphors involving death and re-birth.
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