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Each Season Produces What is Needed for the Next

Each Season Produces What is Needed for the Next

Last year, I was really struggling in a season of continually pain, loss and grief. I turned to the seasons of nature to see if I could learn anything to help me thrive in the season I was in. Oh yes! ⁠

This Season has Purpose

This Season has Purpose

A few lessons from the season of ❄️ winter...
1. GROWING CAN FEEL LIKE DYING - A seed has to die & be buried in the ground before it can begin again in spring. But things aren’t actually dead - beneath the surface, the roots are very much alive.

Making Art out of What is Broken

Making Art out of What is Broken

Have you heard of kintsugi? It’s the art of repairing broken pottery with gold. This process beautifies the breakage and treats it as an important part of the object’s history, therefore valuing fractures instead of disguising them or glossing over them. The process typically results in something far more beautiful and stronger than the original.

The Voices we Listen to

The Voices we Listen to

We’ve got to be really selective about what voices we listen to and hold onto. Not just rejecting the negative ones, but sometimes people are trying to help with their advice and opinion and it’s totally ok to thank them but know that it’s just an opinion, and you need to listen louder to the still quiet voice within.