What does it mean, to re-craft or be involved in re-crafting? We might be familiar with using words like “reframing” how we look at something, or changing the stories we tell ourselves. In that same vein, the practice of living the life we say we want might seem like an art form at times as we grapple with feeling or thinking or reacting differently than we once did. Ebb and flow. Maybe some of us flow along like in a river, and life seems to take us on the journey. If we are going where the energy is, where we naturally feel YES! then that is an ideal path and journey.

Using the idea of re-crafting a situation, or our feelings towards a person, or maybe even this phase of our life, that is part of changing our story. If using the idea of a craft like working with clay, then to re-craft is to reshape the clay, situation or story to better reflect or capture where we find ourselves now. That seems part of living and aging deliciously. Maybe it is called being resilient?

Some have said they no longer feel like the person they were before the pandemic. Is that part of being re-crafted whether voluntarily or through necessity? Does it depend on how we like the change and whether we felt we had choice? Re-crafting in the positive sense is the act of being the one doing the creating and adapting, redoing what has been done. Maybe taking something, even something we had little choice, and remodeling the way we do it, the way we experience it, and even talk about it with others.

Re-crafting is a creative act. Creativity is a healing endeavor, and most of us feel good when we are involved in a creative pursuit. We can get cranky when we aren’t feeling creative. So for example, do we re-craft how we cook, and experiment with ingredients because maybe access to ingredients changes over time and we adapt? We can embrace it, and in the process we re-craft how we experience and view things so that they better support us and match who we are in this point in time.