Learn to recover from life’s wounds and celebrate healing

How do you regard places within you and your life that need healing? How do you explain your wounds to yourself and others? These might be physical, emotional or mental wounds.

They may include insecurities, injuries, even failures. If you’ve lived long enough, you have most definitely incurred some hurts of various kinds.

The most successful people in the world have also failed the most often because they don’t stop at failure.

Kintsugi practitioners repair clay pottery with gold. Does that surprise you? Gold is so much more valuable than clay. Why would they do that?

They believe the broken places are the most valuable.

What would it look and feel like to treat your injuries in the same way?

Your broken places are an important part of your life story.

They have exalted value as do you.

These vulnerabilities should not be shamed. Instead treat them with the honor and care they deserve. You may even choose to celebrate them because they’ve made you who you are today.

When you work on healing yourself with this approach, you are much more likely to experience dignity around all of who you are. Many people spend their lifetimes trying to hide from themselves and others. They don’t feel worthy of being fully seen.

This pattern is a vexation to your humanity. You deserve to treat yourself better.

Stand tall. Be proud.

Celebrate your life and all of who you are. You were not meant to compartmentalize yourself into pieces that are deemed “acceptable” by others.

Don’t dim your light because of the organic wounds you’ve incurred along your life’s journey. Shine brightly in all your glory.

When you shine in this way, you will attract others who do the same. You may also attract some bugs. This happens. The bugs may try to bring you down, but they have no power here.

See them for who they are. Understand you may have triggered them by being so boldly beautiful.