Kintsugi 金繕い is the art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with gold sometimes silver, sometimes even platinum. It doesn’t hide the damage. It honors it. It highlights the cracks, and somehow, what was once shattered becomes even more beautiful than it was before. Every time I sit with the idea of Kintsugi, I’m reminded of how we’re meant to hold our own cracks. Not as something to hide, to rush through, & never as evidence that we weren’t enough. But instead to hold them like sacred places, places where life cracked us open, so that we can make a choose to mend them with intention. If there’s one thing…
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On my healing journey, some seasons have felt beautiful and light filled. Other times, healing has looked like crying in my car, feeling completely thrown off by a trigger, or realizing I was still carrying pain I thought I had already worked through. That is one of the biggest truths I have learned healing doesnt always look like feeling happy all the time. It does not mean you never get triggered again. It does not mean you suddenly become a perfectly calm, fully evolved version of yourself overnight. More often healing is messy chaotic humbling & Deeply nonlinear. But over time, something does begin to change. You start noticing that…
