Welcome. I'm Connor Beaton, and on this midweek mini episode, we are going to talk about what to do

with our broken parts. Now, this initially might sound melodramatic, and I thought about creating a

different title for it, but sometimes we just need to be direct.

And I think, you know, the reality is that all of us on some level can resonate and understand this concept of having broken parts.

For some of us, it might be in the current moment, you know, somewhere in our life right now, we might feel

like there something is broken, either within us or within a relationship, or that something

is broken within our career or our mindset or our emotional body, or our ability to connect

with our partner sexually.

For some of us, it might be that our broken parts are there because of something that happened years and years ago, something that happened in our childhood or in our teenage years

where we were rejected or abused, abandoned, or embarrassed.

And one of the most common things that I hear from people is, you know, I don't know

what to do with these parts of me that feel incomplete and they cause me to feel lost.

And what do I do with them?

And I was reminded recently of a really powerful form of artworking from the Japanese tradition

called Kinsugi. It's K-I-N-T-S-U-G-I. And Kinsugi is the art of repairing broken pottery

with gold, with liquid gold. And Kinsugi is a really interesting

process because it started, it's basically a form of golden repair in many ways. It's actually

what it translates to. And there's some beautiful artwork. So if you have a chance,

definitely go and look this up online and see some of the artwork.

You might want to have a piece of your own. But in Japanese art, they repair broken pottery by mending the areas of the breakage with lacquer,

dusted, or mixed powdered gold, sometimes silver or platinum.

And as a philosophy, this is the important part.

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