Recovery Foundations, it is a book that guides people through that tricky period of waiting two years for treatment for PTSD, depression, anxiety or the like. The book helps a person to preserve strength, as well as to rebuild it where possible, especially before any ‘treatment’, which might dismantle and create movement before you find steady ground. A companion to therapy, the book may also become that for some, it really is up to the person in recovery or ‘pre-recovery’.
Author: Ana Maria Santuario.
Book title: Recovery Foundations.
Excerpt: Chapter Six, Settling Into It All, p.15-16.
Genre & themes: Self-help; Actionable; PTSD recovery; Life recovery (non-fiction).
Website: AnaMaria.Org.
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Kintsugi Pottery embraces imperfection, it is the centuries-old Japanese art of repairing broken pottery and transforming it into a new work of art with gold.
‘Kintsugi’ finds its linguistic origins in the words “Kin” (golden) and “tsugi” (joinery), which translates into “golden repair.” The wounded pottery now has visible scars and cracks, which become a beautiful focal point of each piece. Something easily discarded before repair is now unique and rather exquisite…
You are under repair, your magical body is using the light of life to heal these wounded spaces and fill them up in new and interesting ways. Trust that WHAT YOU NEED is what the body and mind are asking for. Drop all self-judgement, let yourself be transformed into something painted with golden wounding and scars, let the world see you, given time.
For now, let the gold become you, and you it.
my gold leafing.
I touch them, my invisible leaves.
Each one, exquisitely painful.
Trying to polish them is pointless,
for they shine with infinite splendour.
Timeless…
Shying away from their existence,
telling myself I’m not covered in delicate dancing branches,
like The Willow in my dreams.
Leaves galore…
Just so much golden joinery.
I AM the golden joinery,
the branches, hairy spindles of light and self-love.
Oh my, just so much self love,
it took me to keep breathing.
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