The art of kintsugi is a beautiful illustration of how being vulnerable about our hurts makes us stronger as our acknowledgement is the first step toward healing.
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Sharing our vulnerability
The more I am able to allow myself to let my vulnerabilities show, the more grace and compassion I am finding in this world and the more I attract people who can be similarly open about themselves. Exposing my vulnerabilities (with appropriate caution, of course) actually makes me less likely to be hurt.
Continue readingThe vulnerability of joy
Joy is both the most exquisite and most vulnerable of emotions. Most adults lose the ability to embrace uninhibited joy like children do. Imagine learning to vulnerable enough to embrace joy again.
Continue readingOpening to true vulnerability
Hiding from ourselves, our most challenging emotions, and our rawest experience of life does nothing to protect us from life’s hard times. It just keeps us insulated from life’s brilliance and makes us less able to handle the hard times when they come.
Continue readingThe beautiful vulnerability of kintsugi
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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