Reintegrating the shards of the self
Cherie, I love your broken mirror imagery. It's a metaphor that speaks deeply to me as well. I created this spiral mosaic of broken-mirror shards in 2020. There's a whole story behind it, because the mirror spontaneously broke itself the moment I uttered the words to my daughter two rooms away: "When you make physical appearance your God, bad things happen." SMASH! We jumped, could not believe it! AS I was sweeping up the shards, I decided I could not throw them away and instead spent a month making this. It became a deeply meaningful metaphor of healing from a lifetime of exposure to narcissists and narcissistic abuse.