You are more beautiful for having been broken.
Healing is not the pursuit of perfection. Wholeness of our being does not mean the erasure of our scars. The Japanese philosophy Wabi-sabi which espouses the embrace and celebration of imperfection and impermanence and Kintsugi, the practice of mending broken pottery with gold to accentuate the cracks rather than conceal them, posit that beauty is found in the fleeting and the imperfect. Our uniqueness, our authentic self, is revealed by the cicatrices collected on our journey through life. Your beauty is not the absence of scars. The wounds we suffer and heal speak to our strength. You are one-of-a-kind, trying to be anything else is torment.
Wrongful Convictions: Letting Go of Negative Self-Beliefs
Why is it so hard for us to let go of the negative beliefs we hold about ourselves? Why, even in the face of evidence to the contrary, do we cling to convictions that we are bad, weak, flawed, unlovable, worthless, or not good enough?
Thoughts on Diagnoses
While a diagnosis is a cluster of symptoms that cause someone distress, it rarely gets at the underlying issues creating and maintaining the distress. My work, as I see it, is about identifying and alleviating the root causes of distress.