Japanese pottery has a concept called kintsugi, where broken pottery is repaired with gold.
Cracks are not hidden, they are highlighted and honoured.
The break becomes the beauty.
What if we treated our emotional wounds like that?
Instead of hiding our pain, we embrace it. We let it change us.
We become a better person not because we avoided being broken but because we allowed ourselves to be hurt and healed.
If we are going to love and care, we’re ultimately going to feel pain. Love and pain are intimate partners.
Anything that opens your heart will also expose it to risk.
In order to love fully and honestly, there is always the potential for love to fail. And should that love remain for a lifetime, at the end of our journey are painful goodbyes.
Heart breaking pain is a human experience that is not meant to be kept hidden.
A Kintsugi bowl is one-of-a-kind, marked by resilience and beauty.
It’s golden lacquer creates something whole again. The breakage becomes an integrated part of the bowl’s history.
We humans are fragile and susceptible to breaks and cracks.
Painful and traumatic experiences can leave us feeling irreparably broken.
We may try to hide our pain or socially withdraw. But our painful experiences are part of our story.
They are woven into who we are becoming and have become. Along the way we collect little moments of gold as we are transformed by our journey.
Never be ashamed of the cracks but see them as beauty in the making.
Your luminous seams will tell a story that encourages others in their current pain, that they too can come through this with a story of transformation and resilience.
