Fractured we Flourished
Together, we create a tapestry of healing.
Together, we mend the broken pieces.
Together, we rise stronger.
Together, we mend the past and build the future.

Grandmas in my life I know you, I have been you.

You were broken, fragmented, and cried tears of hope, fear, and love. You died to self so the ones you loved would have what they needed. You did without unselfishly and broke a little more to self.

YOU dreamed, you BELIEVED

NOW is your time to SHINE
YOU have found your VOICE
YOU have learned to say NO
YOU know you are ENOUGH

I was with you through the tears, I read your stories, I saw you break through the "WHAT IF'S" and let go of another layer of FEAR.


YOU let go and stopped listening to what your grandparents said, your parents said, your religion said, your culture said, your friends said.

YOU started listening to your heart, the innate whispers of self that loved you and believed in you.

YOU began trusting yourself, and didn't care what others thought.

YOU became the woman you needed and wanted to be!
YOU BECAME AND ARE STILL BECOMING

Join me, be part of this gray tsunami of grandmothers who were black sheep, bohemians, hippies, rebels.

WE ran away, we didn't trust, we knew things were not right and we were the kids, the teenagers, the women who watched as our children, marriages, and lives where destroyed.

WE cried, hid, we lied, we pretended, we
FORGOT WHO WE WERE!

WE FORGAVE EVERYONE ELSE BUT OURSELVES.

We cocooned for decades, we drank, we took pills, we abused ourselves, let others abuse us, and forgot WHO WE WERE, wearing masks, crying tears, and sleeping our lives away.

We lost ourselves, forgot who we were, died again to self, and let others take advantage as we smiled and died to self over and over, with scars being opened again, our lives being shattered again. The betrayal, lies, and rape of self to our bodies, minds, lives.

How many nights of pills, drinks, tears, and years of nothingness, forgetting we deserved more, needed, and wanted more?

Broken we are beautiful
Fragmented we have flourished
We are Kintsugi Woman
We are Kintsugi GRANDMOTHERS

We are BE.YOU.TIFUL
We are not broken, we are REBORN
We are HEALED
We are ENOUGH
We are POWERFUL

Are you ready, have you had ENOUGH?
BELIEVE in yourself, TRUST YOURSELF.

Remembering where we have been. It has been a journey of chrysalis rebirth and many do-overs. From a farm girl with a very conservative background.

Fractured we flourish 
Kintsugi grandmOTHER
Kalina
XOXOYOU

You are a powerful, be.YOU.tifil grandmOTHERS