What is Alchemical Healing
What is Alchemical healing? From my learning and experience, it is the process of mending/healing what is broken and transforming into something better and more treasured than before. This is the process of growth, evolution and transformation that we inevitably experience, even if we don’t want it or like it.
Many of us went through this during the Covid years, our whole sense of our identity, safety, resources, of how the world was supposed to work turned upside down, disorienting and disempowering us. And through that process of living through those years, many of us began to wonder how we really wanted to live our lives, what was truly meaningful to us changed, we adapted, we found new ways to think and be. We are more resilient, empowered and more tolerant of change and uncertainty than before. From my perspective, this process may happen several times in our lifetimes… except having been through it before, we may have more patience and faith with the process of mending next time we encounter a situation that seems to break us.
These pictures and the article on the art of Kintsugi provide an outstanding illustration of the process of Alchemical Healing. Broken pottery shards are mended carefully with gold and the whole piece becomes more beautiful and valuable than before
Kintsugi: The art of precious scars
