I love the children’s book entitled “Broken Crayons Still Color” by Toni Collier, because it’s such a powerful metaphor for how so many of us move through life. If you look up ‘broken’ in the dictionary, you’ll see something to the effect of: ‘having been fractured, damaged, and no longer in one piece or in working order.’ Using that definition, to say a crayon split in half is “broken” is narrow-minded, because while it is certainly no longer in one piece, it does still perform its primary function. It colors.
Chandler Stroud of the Healing Heroes Podcast shares this journey to self-love in a feature originally published by Gothamology.
