Cracked Edges

Cracked Edges No matter what happens to you, the core will always be strong."
- Annette Reid

For generations, silence was survival, but survival is not healing. When you honor your voice, you break cycles, free le...
12/01/2025

For generations, silence was survival, but survival is not healing. When you honor your voice, you break cycles, free legacies, and rise. Today, speak and celebrate the freedom that follows.
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Our voices are not burdens; they're bridges. Let's break the cycle together.
12/01/2025

Our voices are not burdens; they're bridges. Let's break the cycle together.

Every tradition carries silence, but silence is not the whole story. The moment you choose to speak, you break cycles an...
12/01/2025

Every tradition carries silence, but silence is not the whole story. The moment you choose to speak, you break cycles and open doors.

Many cultures, especially those shaped by survival or oppression, teach silence as a form of strength. It becomes a way ...
12/01/2025

Many cultures, especially those shaped by survival or oppression, teach silence as a form of strength. It becomes a way to "hold the family together" or to protect dignity, but that silence often turns into a cycle: pain gets internalized, passed down, and worn like a badge of honor when, in truth, it's a weight.

Why This Happens
Survival strategy:
Silence was once protection—keeping stories hidden meant safety.
Respectability
Families equate silence with pride, believing that showing pain is weakness.
Inherited Patterns
Children watch how parents cope, and learn to carry pain the same way.
Unspoken Rules:
"Don't air dirty laundry" becomes a cultural mantra, even when healing requires openness.

Lately I've been paying more attention to my breath, not just the inhale and exhale but the moments in between.The ones ...
11/15/2025

Lately I've been paying more attention to my breath, not just the inhale and exhale but the moments in between.
The ones that whisper, its time to relax, pick up the pace or just be still and listen. Shhh!

Each breath, pause is a quiet teacher, a reminder that I'm still here and to keep moving forward. ✚

Write about a moment when your breath guided you—into rest, action or being present.

One of the reasons I love Fall—the trees shedding their leaves–burnt orange, golden yellow and a hint of rust.🍂It's a re...
11/08/2025

One of the reasons I love Fall—the trees shedding their leaves–burnt orange, golden yellow and a hint of rust.🍂

It's a reminder that letting go can be breathtaking too.🍁

What are you releasing this season?

Trauma Is Not What Happens to You, It Is What Happens Inside You” –Gabor Mate đŸŒżđŸŒ»đŸŒż +++Trauma is a wo...
11/08/2025

Trauma Is Not What Happens to You, It Is What Happens Inside You”
–Gabor Mate
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Trauma is a wound that can be healed
Trauma can be caused by what happens to you, or by what doesn't happen that should have
Trauma can be caused by unmet needs, even if you weren't overtly hurt
Trauma can be caused by disconnection from your authentic self
Trauma can be restored at any moment
Trauma doesn't have to define your life
Trauma doesn't have to define how you see yourself, the world, or other people
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Additional information In the talk, Mate discusses how trauma can be caused by a variety of things, including abuse as a child, or genocide. He also discusses how trauma can cause you to believe certain things about yourself, the world, or other people.

WHAT IS METTA?"Ajaan Fuang, my meditation teacher, once discovered that a snake had moved into his room. Every time he c...
11/05/2025

WHAT IS METTA?
"Ajaan Fuang, my meditation teacher, once discovered that a snake had moved into his room. Every time he came in the door, he saw it slip into a narrow space behind a storage cabinet. And even though he tried leaving the door to the room open during the daytime, the snake wasn’t willing to leave. So for three days they lived together. He was very careful not to startle the snake or make it feel threatened by his presence. But finally on the evening of the third day, as he was sitting in meditation, he addressed the snake quietly in his mind.

He said, “Look, it’s not that I don’t like you. I don’t have any bad feelings for you. But our minds work in different ways. It’d be very easy for there to be a misunderstanding between us. Now, there are lots of places out in the woods where you can live without the uneasiness of living with me.” And as he sat there spreading thoughts of metta to the snake, the snake left.

When Ajaan Fuang first told me this story, it made me stop and reconsider my understanding of what metta is. Metta is a wish for happiness—for true happiness—and the Buddha says to develop this wish for ourselves and everyone else: “With metta for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart.”
But what’s the quality of heart that should go along with that wish? Many people define it as “lovingkindness,” implying a desire to be there for other people: to cherish them, to provide them with intimacy, nurture, and protection. The idea of feeling love for everyone sounds very noble and emotionally satisfying. But when you really stop to think about all the beings in the cosmos, there are a lot of them who — like the snake — would react to your lovingkindness with suspicion and fear. Rather than wanting your love, they would rather be left alone. Others might try to take unfair advantage of your lovingkindness, reading it as a sign either of your weakness or of your endorsement of whatever they want to do. In none of these cases would your lovingkindness lead to anyone’s true happiness. You’re left to wonder if the Buddha’s instructions on universal metta are really realistic or wise.
But as I learned from Ajaan Fuang’s encounter with the snake, metta is not necessarily an attitude of lovingkindness. It’s more an attitude of goodwill—wishing the other person well, but realizing that true happiness is something that ultimately each of us will have to find for him or herself.
Metta: May all beings be happy.
By holding Metta in our hearts, every interaction we have with others, with ourselves, and with our life can be filled with care, understanding, and trust. This love opens our hearts to accept without judgment everyone, including ourselves.
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THE VISIONđŸŒ± I was 14.Back home with my mother and siblings.Struggling—in school, in silence, in belonging.It was lunchti...
11/05/2025

THE VISIONđŸŒ±

I was 14.
Back home with my mother and siblings.
Struggling—in school, in silence, in belonging.
It was lunchtime. I walked out the school gate,
stood under a tree, and everything slowed.
In that stillness,
a plate appeared—off-white, floating,
cracks running around the edges and near the center.
And then, a voice.
Not loud, but certain:
“No matter what happens to you,
the core will always be intact.”
That moment changed me.
It wasn’t a dream.
It was a vision.
A message.
A promise.
That plate became my mirror.
Those cracks became my brand.
Cracked Edges was born that day—
not as a weakness,
but as a witness
to the strength that lives beneath the fracture.


Spring, Summer.Winter Fall,Nothing changes For youYour lips bleed liesYour tongue spread hateQuick to judgeSlow to liste...
10/30/2025

Spring, Summer.
Winter Fall,
Nothing changes
For you
Your lips bleed lies
Your tongue spread hate
Quick to judge
Slow to listen
But I've learned not to drink from that cup
Assumption is a thief
And silence, a shield
I choose the light đŸŒ»
I choose the light đŸŒ»
I choose the light đŸŒ»
Even when it flickers

Find joy in the small moments: a child blowing bubbles, a dog chasing butterflies, savoring your favorite food, strollin...
09/28/2025

Find joy in the small moments: a child blowing bubbles, a dog chasing butterflies, savoring your favorite food, strolling in the park, quiet moments of peace, a couple seated on a bench eating ice-cream, laughing while reading a letter, a book or your favorite poem—those small, seemingly insignificant moments are what really matters.

Cultivate gratitude, build mental resilience, enrich your overall well-being by paying attention to the small things.
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Grow at your own place 🌿
04/09/2025

Grow at your own place 🌿

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