The holidays bring a season of intense pressure (both internal and external) to meet expectations and temptations to overdo in many ways. Learning to consciously separate the voices that make up this pressure and identify their sources makes it easier to stay in touch with our own inner wisdom. It’s great (intensive) practice for the rest of the year!
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Learning to trust the process of healing and growth is the bedrock gift of kintsugi gold because it fuels the all of the rest of gifts by giving me what I need to better negotiate that process. That trust is what keeps me motivated to do the hard work that is available for me to do and makes it possible for me surrender to the process in the parts that are out of my control. It’s only through my trust of the process that I am able to balance those two opposing forces in a way that helps me heal, grow, and make the best use of the new beginnings available.
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Just as happens in the chrysalis, our new beginnings often look so foreign from the self-identity we once held that we withdraw and retreat from what is trying to emerge even as we impatiently wait for that very emergence.
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