Mending Rather than Healing

I’m interested in mending rather than healing. 

Facilitator Karin Dremel once moved me deeply by saying, “mending is personal, it’s what we can hold in our hands, the step that’s ours to take. Any healing that happens is grace.”

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I never, ever say or write those words without tearing up. They bring relief! We are here to show the heck up, yet in concert with grace.

My sense is that as we attend to what is ours to mend, we have the chance to make something new out of something known. We clip away limiting beliefs and ways that were unhelpfully joined. We stitch together fragments that belong together, but which the system forgot were a fit.

We can hold it in our hands. We can take the step that's ours. This is the best way I know to unfold our potential.