Overview
Restorative Heartcraft, commonly called Mending, is the tradition of healing, renewal, and reversing decay. It is a specialized branch of Heartcraft that focuses on the boundary between life and death -- understanding what should grow, what should heal, and what should be allowed to end.
How It Works
Mending operates on the principle that all living things carry the memory of their whole state. A broken bone remembers being whole. A dead garden remembers growing. A Mending practitioner doesn't create health -- they remind living things of what they were, and the things remember.
The deeper application: some decay is natural, even necessary. A fallen tree feeds the forest. Dead leaves become soil. The greatest Mending practitioners understand that their Gift is not about preventing death. It's about knowing the difference between damage and completion.
The Risk
Refusing to let anything die, including things that need to end. Boundary loss -- heal too much and you can't tell where your body ends and theirs begins. The healer who dissolves herself in the act of fixing everything else.
The Wellspring Connection
Mending is the Wellspring filtered through biological repair -- the raw creative potential of reality channeled through the mechanism that makes living things regenerate.