Your ultimate purpose behind any new year resolutions you might make can profoundly influence your experience and success. Never forget that you are already enough just as you are!
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Re-considering my self-criticism
What if some of the things I most criticize about myself are actually my greatest strengths? Maybe I need to re-evaluate my perspective more than I need to change.
Continue readingHealing is not a race
It’s so easy to get caught up in comparing ourselves to others and turn our growth and healing into a race, but this approach actually gets in our way. My spring bulbs are reminding me that there’s a better way to approach this.
Continue readingWhy a small step is better than a giant leap
I am chronically impatient when it comes to growth and achieving my goals, but I’ve come to realize that taking small steps toward those goals serves me much better than giant leaps. Here are four reasons why.
Continue readingThe pain of developing new skills
When I start a new workout routine, I expect there to be soreness the next day as I acclimate. When I’m developing new emotional or relational skills, I often don’t do nearly as well in expecting sore “emotional muscles” and get thrown off course when they appear. Do you know how to recognize and deal with your own sore emotional muscles when you’re learning new skills?
Continue readingBravery isn’t always glamorous
It’s easy to imagine bravery as applying to only the big, glamorous moments of life, but it’s actually something we benefit from far more often in life’s small moments. Recognizing and honoring our bravery in these small moments builds our capacity for bravery in life’s bigger moments. The hope available in kintsugi living helps make this possible.
Continue readingEmbracing the power of fresh starts
Early September still feels like a new year for me with its back-to-school vibe. That feeling reminds me of the power of fresh starts to turbo-charge growth and healing in my life. How do you harness the power of fresh starts in your life?
Continue readingA gentle cycle of nurturing growth
Part of living a kintsugi life is a commitment to using what happens to us as fuel for our ongoing growth, but it’s easy to let that commitment slide during the overwhelm of the intensity of life’s broken places or the complacency of the every day in between those broken places. This gentle cycle of alternating between planting and nurturing new things and releasing the old ones helps keep growth on track through both seasons of life.
Continue readingLeaping into the new year with kintsugi gold
Living a kintsugi life has changed the way I perform my annual process of reviewing the year gone by and setting goals for the year ahead in ways that are both helpful and life-affirming. Here’s what has shifted for me, and I invite you to try something similar. Happy New Year!
Continue readingThe test of personal growth work
Landscaping projects in my yard designed to make fall leaf season more manageable are teaching me a lot about dealing with the gap between the personal growth work I do and the measurable results of that work. Here’s what I’m learning and how it’s inspiring me.
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