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.
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The kintsugi art form is a symbol of the hope of healing—and healing with extra beauty in our scars—for many of us, but what you may not realize is that it’s also a symbol for just how slowly and incrementally that healing happens. The process can inspire us not just with it’s final product, but also all along the way in how we get there.
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Guest post author, Kelley Gunter, shares her powerful story of brokenness resulting from severe childhood trauma and her ongoing healing as she works through the devastating memories and trauma that resulted. In this inspiring post, she shares some of the things that are helping her heal and what she’s learning from the process.
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Embracing our vulnerability enough to let our scars show is a counter-cultural notion, but the people who have the strength and courage to do this well are the people that I find myself admiring the most. They inspire me and encourage me to keep working on my own healing. Today’s post explores the contrast between our culture’s norms and the beauty that comes from the counter-cultural decision to embrace kintsugi-like vulnerability instead.
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Kintsugi is a beautiful sign of hope, but choosing to live it out as a kintsugi life offers much more power to transform life from the inside out. Here’s what it means to live a kintsugi life.
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We all have at least one thing that we naturally bring to the world around us that makes the world a better place. The problem for many of us is that our superpower hides in places we never think to look.
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Kintsugi is teaching me to re-perceive my scars—no longer as old wounds but as badges of healing. It’s so freeing to stop reliving the old wounds every time I get triggered and looking instead at how much I’ve grown and healed in the time since then.
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In kintsugi living, it is the healing and the gifts therein that are to be celebrated, not the wounds themselves!
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