The Japanese art of putting broken things back together with gold glue is called “Kintsugi.”
Glennon Doyle is the one who said the line about writing from your scars and not your wounds.
“Glennon: Well, we have to choose carefully where we do our truth-telling. One thing I remind people is something my friend, Nadia Bolz-Weber, told me: If you're going to share widely-make sure you're sharing from your scars, not your open wounds. Love Warrior is intensely personal, but it's not a diary. I started turning it into a memoir two years after it all happened, and I had enough distance to look at all of it somewhat objectively. I wrote the book and rewrote it, and with every paragraph asked myself: How is this not just about me, but about the reader? About all of us? How can I turn my personal story into something universal? I sifted through my own pain and mined it for gold to share with others. When we truth-tell widely in real time, it's alarming to people because it can feel more like a cry for help than an act of service. You have to be still with your pain before you can offer it up and use it to serve and connect with people you don't know.”
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Showing up when the alternative is not showing up to Do Life anymore. Sometimes courage looks like just getting out of bed. Been in a dark in-between for a very long time. Maybe I don't know how to listen to the "little whispers" or maybe they aren't there. How do you know which decision is the right one when it won't be easy to reverse. I love the idea that the unknown contains all the possibilities, but that also makes it hard to figure out which one of the alternate universes is the one you're really supposed to end up in.
This was a great essay and beautifully articulated. Thanks and good luck in your journey.
The Japanese art of putting broken things back together with gold glue is called “Kintsugi.”
Glennon Doyle is the one who said the line about writing from your scars and not your wounds.
“Glennon: Well, we have to choose carefully where we do our truth-telling. One thing I remind people is something my friend, Nadia Bolz-Weber, told me: If you're going to share widely-make sure you're sharing from your scars, not your open wounds. Love Warrior is intensely personal, but it's not a diary. I started turning it into a memoir two years after it all happened, and I had enough distance to look at all of it somewhat objectively. I wrote the book and rewrote it, and with every paragraph asked myself: How is this not just about me, but about the reader? About all of us? How can I turn my personal story into something universal? I sifted through my own pain and mined it for gold to share with others. When we truth-tell widely in real time, it's alarming to people because it can feel more like a cry for help than an act of service. You have to be still with your pain before you can offer it up and use it to serve and connect with people you don't know.”
Thank you so much for this. Now I can attribute properly.
The Japanese art form is also known as Kintsukuroi. I remember when I mentioned this in my book, the researchers double checked.
wow Sarah the free Audio In YouTube called( in between )was so quickly that I wonder how it ends so fast I was alignment with your voice and your great words ! thank you
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Showing up when the alternative is not showing up to Do Life anymore. Sometimes courage looks like just getting out of bed. Been in a dark in-between for a very long time. Maybe I don't know how to listen to the "little whispers" or maybe they aren't there. How do you know which decision is the right one when it won't be easy to reverse. I love the idea that the unknown contains all the possibilities, but that also makes it hard to figure out which one of the alternate universes is the one you're really supposed to end up in.
This was a great essay and beautifully articulated. Thanks and good luck in your journey.