07/03/2026
🔎Therapy Lens / Wabi Sabi
From the therapy room at Kite Your Soul
Each month at Kite Your Soul, I reflect on the practical application of a philosophical idea that shapes my understanding of healing and the human experience in the therapy room during my consultations.
The Shoshin seedling of January has grown into Wabi-Sabi in February, waiting to see what it sprouts up in March.
If Shoshin invites us to look at life with openness, Wabi-Sabi invites us to accept what we begin to see.
At Kite Your Soul, the reflection on Wabi-Sabi this February was all about accepting the imperfect, the unfinished, and the deeply human parts of our lives. It reminds us that life does not need to be flawless to be meaningful. Often the beauty of a life lies in the story that carries both joy and scars.
In therapy, many people arrive believing something within them is “not right.” Yet very often, what they call flaws are simply parts of themselves that were trying to survive.
This is where the idea of the shadow becomes important.
The Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung described the shadow as the unconscious aspects of our personality , the parts of ourselves that do not fit the image we believe we should be, or the expectations placed upon us by family and society.
The shadow is not necessarily dark. Sometimes it simply contains the parts of us that were never allowed to be seen, expressed, or understood.
Through the therapeutic lens of Wabi-Sabi, I often invite people to gently look toward these hidden parts with curiosity and compassion. When we begin to acknowledge and integrate these aspects of ourselves, We begin to feel more whole.
If you wish to explore your own shadow work, I warmly invite you to the therapy space at Kite Your Soul.
To learn more about Wabi-Sabi in action and how we can integrate parts of our shadow in life, I invite you to read the complete reflection on the blog.
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