Health care providers (HCPs) have been more than resilient during the pandemic and it’s time we stop putting the burden on them to be more courageous, more responsive, more tolerant, more “resilient.”

Kintsugi, is a Japanese fine art of repairing--instead of throwing away--fractured pottery and ceramics with liquid gold or silver. It is a beautiful metaphor for the wounded healer.

There is no better way to set ourselves up for disappointment than to expect something outside of ourselves to keep us safe. It is our thoughts, feelings, intuition, and actions that gives us that safe feeling.