What's Your Whole (Hearted) Story?
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There is strength and beauty in the brokenness.
I love the wisdom of kintsugi - the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with a gold lacquer. Rather than trying to hide the breakage and repair, this method enhances them. The beauty of the repaired piece lies in its imperfections.
The same is also true for us: we are stronger and more beautiful precisely because of our imperfections and our history.
There is power in our stories.
Stories connect us to ourselves, to each other, and also to the long-arc of humanity.
Our stories help us make sense of things and - from there - to grow.
Within the truth of our experiences - the good, the bad and the ugly - lie the raw materials from which we can build a whole-hearted life.
“The irony is that we attempt to disown our difficult stories to appear more whole or more acceptable, but our wholeness—even our wholeheartedness—actually depends on the integration of all of our experiences, including the falls.”
As your Celebrant, I help you to uncover your story and craft a ceremony around it.
No love story is perfect. Your wedding should lift up the beautiful intentions you have for your journey and allow for the inevitable missteps you will make along the way.
No life story is perfect. An end-of-life ceremony for your loved one should lift up their beautiful qualities and make space for the ways in which they may have been flawed like the rest of us.
As we collaborate on your ceremony, I listen deeply to your stories. From there, I craft a ceremony that holds together seemingly disparate pieces and acknowledges and celebrates your perfectly imperfect whole(hearted)ness.
What life transition would you like to mark through meaningful ceremony?
What stories need to be told in order to do it well?
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AUTHOR: KARLA COMBRES
As a Legacy Guide & Celebrant, I help individuals, couples, families and organizations make the big and small moments in life count, and shape their legacy along the way. I offer:
Drawing on my vast experience as a Life-Cycle Celebrant and in working with people at the end of life, I am uniquely qualified to help people move through transitions meaningfully and to think about how they want to leave this world so they can live better now.
I’m based in Saskatchewan, Canada and serve clients worldwide. Read more about me here.
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