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Dealing with pain

Kenetha Stanton Quotes August 31, 2022August 31, 2022healing, pain, wounds

“There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.” ~Henri Nouwen (from “The Inner Voice of Love”)

I naturally tend more toward one of these extremes than the other and will sometimes judiciously employ aspects of the other extreme to help me find a healthy middle ground. How do you help yourself stay away from the extremes and find your way into that healthy middle space of healing?

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Your heart is greater than your wounds

Kenetha Stanton Quotes June 15, 2022June 15, 2022healing, heart, wounds

“You have been wounded in many ways. The more you open yourself to being healed, the more you will discover how deep your wounds are. . . . The great challenge is living your wounds through instead of thinking them through. It is better to cry than to worry, better to feel your wounds deeply than to understand them, better to let them enter into your silence than to talk about them. The choice you face constantly is whether you are taking your hurts to your head or to your heart. In your head you can analyze them, find their causes and consequences, and coin words to speak and write about them. But no final healing is likely to come from that source. You need to let your wounds go down to your heart. Then you can live through them and discover that they will not destroy you. Your heart is greater than your wounds.” – Henri Nouwen

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A home for our hopes

Kenetha Stanton Quotes April 14, 2022April 14, 2022home, hope, wounds

“Our hurts can become the home for our greatest hopes.” ~Richard Rohr

Easter’s emergence from the tragedy of Maundy Thursday’s betrayal and Good Friday’s death is a powerful reminder of the way hope can emerge from our hurts.

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The beauty of scars

Kenetha Stanton Quotes January 23, 2020January 23, 2020healing, kintsugi, kintsukuroi, scars, wounds

“Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.” ~Linda Hogan

What do you see when you look at your own scars?

Do not hide your wounds

Kenetha Stanton Quotes August 18, 2016August 24, 2016healing, kintsugi, wounds

“In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.” ~Brennan Manning

So many of us have been taught that our wounds are signs of weakness or defectiveness on our part, but wounds are a normal part of living. They are nothing to be ashamed of or to hide.

When we release these messages of shame that we have gotten from our culture, we create space for healing to take place and, in the process, for our own healing to spread to those around us.

This is what living a kintsugi life is all about!

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