💬 Quote from the Episode:

“Jerry-rigging is a function of survival—because sometimes you just have to get it done, or make it work, until you can truly fix it.”

🌐 Description:

In this thought-provoking DIVOted Talk, Nicholas Wade Kimps explores the metaphor of jerry-rigging life—how temporary fixes, coping mechanisms, and patchwork routines often reveal deeper truths about survival, wellness, and awareness. Rooted in yoga philosophy and Ayurveda, this episode invites reflection on when adaptation serves growth—and when it holds us back.

📌 Show Notes:

How often do you jerry-rig your life—just to keep it together?

In this reflective episode, Nicholas Wade Kimps dives into the art of “making do” through the lens of yoga, Ayurveda, and everyday life. From duct-taped mirrors to stacked yoga blocks, he explores how our makeshift solutions—both physical and emotional—mirror the deeper systems within us. Are we creating structure or merely holding things together until they fall apart?

Nicholas connects the metaphor to Ayurveda’s call for systemic clarity and yoga’s invitation to awareness: noticing what’s essential versus what’s improvised. Whether it’s patching over burnout, overworking in the name of survival, or stacking temporary solutions, this DIVOted Talk invites listeners to step back and ask: What am I maintaining—and what am I truly mending?

🔑 Highlights:

• 🧰 The Survival Reflex: Why jerry-rigging can be both resourceful and revealing

• 🪞 Patchwork Living: Duct-taped mirrors and improvised systems as metaphors for self-maintenance

• 🌿 Ayurveda & Simplicity: Returning to the essentials—what the body and mind actually need

• 🔥 Yoga as Refinement: Practice as the act of replacing survival mechanisms with awareness

• 🧠 Therapeutic Removal: Letting go of fixes that no longer serve mind, body, or spirit

• ⚖️ Temporary vs. True Alignment: Knowing when the “quick fix” has become a quiet crutch

💬 Reflection Prompt:

Where in your life are you jerry-rigging—holding something together out of habit instead of healing it with intention?

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