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Saturday, April 18, 2020

Kintsugi restoration as metaphor for moral resiliency

“Kintsugi...’golden repair’... is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage [with golden adhesive]... it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi

h/t to lecture on moral resilience by Cynda H. Rushton, PhD, MSN, RN (https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Resilience-Transforming-Suffering-Healthcare/dp/0190619260)



See also Bessel van der Kolk M.D.'s work on Healing of Trauma
https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0143127748

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