12 episodes
Kintsugi - The Art of Personal Reconstruction Tijani Ogunlende
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Kintsugi, also known as kintsukuroi is the Japanese art of reconstructing broken pottery and ceramics. In its essential form, it is the art of making better that which has been broken. This concept though usually applied to ceramics, can be applied to our personal lives also.
This podcast is about the journey we all take (in one way or another); falling flat, breaking apart, and rebuilding ourselves many times over, each time building with the lessons we've learned. I like to think of these lessons as the 'golden glue' that rebinds the broken pieces and contributes to the beauty of the reconstructed object.
Through my journey, I’ve come across stories of others who have traveled the path before I did. Their stories often renewed my own sense of motivation and provided a sense or feeling of not being alone. This podcast is a mix of personal accounts of my experiences and an intent to pay forward what I have learned from others so that you might also benefit from it in the same way I have.
On this journey, you drop in during the late stages of transition from the person I used to be to the person I am emerging into. Taking you with me during this process is the goal and my hope is that by talking about these experiences they leave you with something you can apply in yours making it more engaging and fulfilling.
This is in summary a personal account of my experience leading up to and just after what feels like a significant transformation in the process of completing itself, with the goal of helping, inspiring, and/or leading you to undertake your own journey to a more fulfilled existence.
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To the Future
In this episode, I bring the first Season of 'Personal Reconstruction' to a close.
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Progression
Progression is slow, and steady. The wound must remain in a non-agitated state for the duration of it's healing. So to our minds, bodies, and emotions need to be in a kind of stasis in order to heal properly. This episode talks about the early stages of recovering from the relapse bubble and gives a semi-roadmap for the next couple of weeks/months leading into Season 2.
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Progress not Perfection
Talking about staying on task, despite having failed a couple of times. A lot changed when I realized I had to keep moving forward, especially if I felt the cause was justified. I learned what I needed to stick with and what to let go of, and most importantly the realization that failing at something did not mean the end of working at doing a better job of it. There also is a counterpoint to this, some things are not meant to be overcome, but rather, avoided. Cultivating this wisdom has been a huge part of what I've learned on this journey. We may not always get it right, but we can always orient ourselves and give it our best shot. Sometimes the goal is to progress, not to be perfect.
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...Another (The Bubble: A documentation)
This is a three part episode with an overarching theme of passing through a time period of recurring relapses, often referred to as the bubble. It's partly a commentary (from the present), a documentation of 'state-of-mind' (the past - Sept 2020), a positively reflective look at what happened and finally orientation towards the future and what it holds.
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A fall... then...
This was a difficult and emotionally wrangling one to put up, nonetheless, I thought it was worth doing, if nothing else but for what we can gain from watching perseverance through a cycle of rising and falling. One of the many truths in life is that we will all face forms of adversity at various points in our lives, whether they are at ours, or at the hands of others and as the saying goes; Its not how many times you fall, its how many times you get up. You can't trust claims to perfection, there is always something disingenuous about them you can, however, trust commitment to a goal ‘regardless’ of circumstance. Progress, not Perfection.
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Stuggle 2 - Wobble
This is a bit of a hybrid series; one part documenting the other side of the struggle - the euphoric 'I think I just beat it' side, and the other talking a little bit more about the series and some of the places I want to take thing. There is also a saying - "Pride goes before a fall", in this case "Euphoria goes before a fall".