Aww, i'm glad -- i'm glad it was helpful. I certainly had tears as i thought while writing and processing, and thought it would just help me. I'm still feeling some sorrow at the dispersal -- my brother's family left yesterday....

I remember healing from a great deal of my childhood traumas partly with a visualization of how the broken parts had been clumsily patched and that, actually, opening up those broken and sealed parts helped me be whole. I wonder now how much was me being broken vs me being different and not what was expected and was the "broken" part really integral to me. But surely the gold in our inner kintsugi is love.