Kintsugi is a Japanese art form that offers new life to damaged or aging ceramic objects by accentuating their cracks and scars. Not only is there no attempt to hide the damage, the damage is celebrated by using gold or silver to repair it with the understanding that the piece is now more beautiful and unique for having been broken and repaired.
As an active addict, I felt broken, fractured and completely disconnected. I felt beyond repair. I felt that even if I was repaired, nobody would ever want me back in their life after all that I had done. I felt like there was no hope for me, even in sobriety.
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Key ideas in this chapter
- Finding beauty in brokenness and repair
- The transformation from shame to pride in recovery
- Celebrating scars as part of the healing journey
- Recovery as a way of life, not something to hide
"I had been broken, but in recovery I have been repaired with gold, and I am now more beautiful for having been scarred and broken."