10/01/2018
“I’ll always remember my friend telling me about ‘Kintsugi,’ which is the Japanese art of putting back together the pieces of a broken bowl with gold. It’s considered to be even stronger than it was before. So she said, ‘Don’t look at you falling apart as being weak, look at it as your strength.’”
“It started off with a tremendous amount of passion. We just ignited each other, enjoyed each other’s company. We laughed a lot together. About 6 months into the relationship, he got an offer to work in Australia. So we just took off and went! Before we knew it we were planning a future together. But after the 1st year, the personal baggage started to appear and as much as we tried and said we would deal with whatever would come our way, when you love that deeply it gets really, really scary and that fear just grew to the point where we both cracked and broke up. The breakup was really about our fear of loving and not the lack of. It sent me into a deep depression. I came back to Montreal, had no job to turn to and no community to turn to. So I turned to my yoga practice to help me heal. I started practicing every day at Moksha. The hot room was the only thing that would calm me down. I started putting myself back together. Piece by piece enabling my heart to open up with a much deeper capacity. Through Moksha, I’ve built an incredible community in my life. My home away from home, I’m now the manager of the West Island location. There is no shame in loving that deep, there is no shame in vulnerability. Even if it doesn’t work out, it’s a gift to love and feel that deeply for someone. The breakup broke me into a million pieces. I’ll always remember my friend telling me about ‘Kintsugi,’ which is the Japanese art of putting back together the pieces of a broken bowl with gold. It’s considered to be even stronger than it was before. So she said, ‘Don’t look at you falling apart as being weak, look at it as your strength.’”
––Catherine, Moksha Yoga West Island
