Are you living with pain that feels all-consuming? What if you could shift your relationship with it—starting with just one breath?

Many survivors of physical injury or emotional trauma struggle with the constant presence of pain. In this short yet powerful meditation, you'll learn how to acknowledge your discomfort without letting it define you, helping you reclaim a sense of self beyond the suffering.

Takeaways:

• Experience a guided breathing practice designed to ground you in the present moment.
• Learn a gentle mantra that helps reframe your experience of pain.
• Discover how to create space between your identity and your discomfort through mindfulness.

Take a couple of minutes to explore this micro dose meditation and start reshaping your relationship with pain today.

00:00 Introduction to Whole Again

00:21 Guided Meditation Setup

00:58 Deep Breathing and Grounding

01:25 Acknowledging Discomfort

01:52 Mantra for Pain

02:58 Closing the Meditation

03:51 Final Thoughts and Resources

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Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, silver, or lacquer, highlighting the cracks rather than hiding them. It embodies the philosophy of wabi-sabi, which finds beauty in imperfection and teaches that breakage and repair are part of an object’s history, making it more valuable rather than less. Metaphorically, Kintsugi reminds us that our challenges, scars, and setbacks are not something to be ashamed of but can be embraced as a source of strength and transformation.

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With Whole Again: A Fresh Approach to Healing, Growth & Resilience after Physical Trauma through Kintsugi Wisdom, listeners explore resilience through personal stories of trauma, scars, and injury while learning to overcome imposter syndrome, self-doubt, and perfectionism with self-compassion, self-love, and self-worth. Through insightful discussions on stress management, mindfulness practices, and digital wellness, the show offers practical tools like breathwork, micro-dose meditation, grounding techniques, visualization, and daily affirmations for anxiety relief and stress relief. Inspired by the art of kintsugi, the podcast embraces healing as a process of transformation, encouraging a shift in perspective from...