Healing in Motion

Finishing touches, gold leaf hand embelleished. ©2026 Karen Armstrong

As the year begins, I’m reflecting in quieter ways. I’ve never been one for resolutions. What feels truer to me is paying attention to where I am and noticing how life, creativity, and healing continue to change shape. It is actively healing in motion.

Over the past year, I began a body of work called Healing Heart, inspired by kintsugi and created during a season of grief. That work taught me how to carry what had been broken, without rushing toward resolution. After completing the first piece, life shifted. A move, new surroundings, and the shared project of restoring an old house slowly widened my days. Grief did not disappear, but it no longer held everything.

In this season, creativity has taken a different form. Planning, imagining, and making space for what comes next have become acts of care. Healing, I’m learning, doesn’t disappear. It moves with us.

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