Kintsugi Golden Healing, LLC

09/21/2026

✨ What if your “broken” places aren’t something to hide—but something to honor? ✨

We all carry cracks from the things we’ve experienced, the beliefs we’ve outgrown, and the moments that have changed us.
In our upcoming Kintsugi-inspired workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to literally break a ceramic bowl and then transform those broken pieces into something beautiful using glue and gold paint. Along the way, we’ll explore the deeper meaning behind the cracks we carry—and how we can begin to see them with greater compassion, acceptance, and self-worth.

💛 Your cracks are part of your story. They don’t diminish your beauty—they can become part of what makes you uniquely you.
Come break. Reflect. Repair. Reimagine.

✨ What might become possible when you stop hiding your cracks and start honoring them?

09/13/2026

What if the very things we’ve been taught to hide could become the most beautiful parts of our story? Join us for a transformative, hands-on workshop where we’ll explore the art of breaking through old beliefs, patterns, and barriers—literally and metaphorically. Inspired by the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi, we’ll break and repair our own ceramic bowls, using glue and gold paint to create something beautiful from the broken pieces. Through reflection, shared stories, and using the Kintsugi process as a tangible metaphor exploring our imperfections while allowing us to see ourselves as the perfectly imperfect souls that we are and honor what we’ve been through, discovering how our “cracks” can become a source of strength, beauty, and renewed self-worth.

09/03/2026

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03/14/2024

10/24/2021

An autonomic form of gaslighting

Much of our wounding occurs prior to the acquisition of language and is not able to be healed through the questioning and reorganization of patterns of thinking. In other words, we can’t think our way out of trauma.

When our capacity to process unbearable terror, panic, shame, and rage is overwhelmed, undigested pieces of experience are held subcortically and in our cellular circuitry, unreachable by thinking which is a layer removed from the fires of the alchemical body.

Encouragement to “just get over it, that’s totally irrational, you can’t really believe that, you know that’s not true” and so forth is experienced by an inflamed nervous system as the activity of violence and aggression.

It’s like an autonomic form of gaslighting and reflects a deep misunderstanding of trauma and the workings of implicit memory, and only contributes to re-traumatization, in personal, cultural, and collective networks.

In addition to shattering and unendurable experience – which is painful and terrifying enough – there is a profound sense of aloneness that goes with this, the sense that no one can understand, that there is no companionship into the dark night. I am alone in this. This is devastating to the soul.

When that raging alive little boy or aching little girl cries out longing to be held, to be known, to be felt, to be heard, to be remembered… peeking their little heads out as if to say, “Is it safe now? How about now? I’ve been waiting for so long for a companion and friend. How about now?”, they’re really not all that interested in our clear cognitive analysis, rational inquiry, powerful spiritual insight, and thoughts on the matter.

They’re yearning for something else… for you, for your heart, for your holding. To know that you will stay near, that you will not abandon or shame them, that you will do your best to provide sanctuary and safe passage for them to come Home, to be allowed to come out of that frozen state and live once again.

In this way they don’t even want or need to be healed, but to be held. And to feel safe.

Photo by Lisa Runnels