waiting – A Kintsugi Life

Expectantly waiting for healing

Kenetha Healing December 7, 2022May 30, 2026healing, hope, waiting

The season of Advent is a good training ground for learning to live with expectant waiting—an active, hope-filled waiting—as we work toward healing and other outcomes that we can’t control. It teaches us to balance the need to work with active expectation toward our goals, while also accepting that they will ripen into being in their own time.

Sit. Wait. Be patient.

Kenetha Transformation April 1, 2020May 30, 2026change, dreams, waiting

We are collectively facing a time of massive change, and yet our current situation also gives us a great opportunity to actively lean into that change in healthy ways using these three powerful (and often ignored) steps.

Kintsugi’s lesson in the slow, patient work of healing

Kenetha Lessons from kintsugi January 9, 2019May 30, 2026gold, healing, kintsugi, kintsukuroi, patience, scars, waiting, wounds

sad woman looking off in the distance against scenic background

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.

The primordial goo stage of transformation

Kenetha Transformation February 4, 2015May 30, 2026chrysalis, transformation, waiting

multi colored slime spreading out on surface

Inside the chrysalis, the caterpillar dissolves into an undifferentiated goo from which the butterfly will be formed. This mirrors our own uncomfortable place in the transformation process where we find ourselves no longer the person we used to be but not yet the person we are becoming.