Color Me Healing

Pardon my not-so-smooth transition, but I want to get real for a second: we've all felt like broken crayons, have we not? We begin whole, colorful, vibrant, and new. But as life goes on, we experience wear and tear, use, cracks, and breaks.

Experiencing a breaking point is inevitable. It can come in the form of an emotional breakdown, heartbreak, or years of putting up with the wrong thing.

 because we form an emotional bond of love to situations, people, and items. At our cores, we are relational beings. In other words, we thrive on connecting with others. Whether we're forming a connection with someone over coffee or buying a journal to begin documenting our innermost thoughts, we create links between ourselves, our hearts, and another entity. And when those links are broken, we experience the repercussions internally.

When we choose to invest our time, efforts, and attention into things, we're bound to endure the hurt of breaking from it because we've placed so much of ourselves within it.

Whatever your "it" is, if you have been broken and hurt, you are not alone. The beautiful thing about broken crayons is that they do still color. And so do you.