Kintsugi: The art of precious scars

In Japan broken objects are often repaired with gold. Rather than this repair being seen as a flaw it is celebrated as part of the object’s history. It sets the object out as being unique and its beauty is celebrated.

How often to do you hark back to days gone by?? Before this or that happened to alter your perception of your body, health or fitness?

We can’t turn back time but what we can do is build from where we are now and make a new reality for our perfection.

In Nutritional Therapy we often see clients who come to us thinking they are broken in some way. That they need to put back together and made whole again ..  that the want to return to a perfect state. We can’t, unfortunately, turn back time but what we can do is start to rebuild from where we are now. Using the information from the past, where you find yourself now and how much you are willing to engage with change.

Often clients are surprised by some of the questions that I ask in an initial consultation – I try to build a picture from their earliest memories of their lives to where they find themselves now. I look at all symptoms they have even if they feel they are unrelated, any medications they are taking, the quality of their sleep, exercise, social connections, nutrition now, the list must seem endless. I am not being nosy or intrusive but I am looking for those missing pieces.

I am lucky to work with a number clients that all have different types of gut disorders … SIBO, IBS, Ulcerated colitis … I am the lucky one, they are defiantly not!! When exploring their histories many of these conditions started twenty years or even longer ago. Food poisoning, traumatic life events and underlying health conditions all triggering these disorders.

When conditions have been underlying for this length of time it is then a slower process to make improvements.  Like kintsugi it is the carefully putting the pieces together to make them stronger.

This art form reminds me that although things may become altered in some way there is still a beauty there.

·         The art of nourishing the body, mind and spirit.

·         The recognition of beauty in things that are different and that we are all unique.

·         The acceptance that we may not be as we once where but there is a beauty in our imperfections

Imperfectly perfect I like to say.

If you are ready to approach your menopause symptoms by looking at the root cause of the problems and taking a holistic approach to nourishing yourself from the inside out then please get in touch to organise a discovery call. Before we organise the call if you can tell me a little bit more about yourself in a short questionnaire this means that you will get the most out of the call. The link to the questionnaire is here.

Lesley xx