** I have been calling in a very specific and nuanced medicine that I know my spirit needs.**
I believe that I have been neglected spiritually by the culture I was born into. As I've embarked on my healing journey from being born into a caste system (and generations of genocide, slavery and displacement) I have healed and learned what parts of my whole have not been properly nurtured.
I believe many things...
I believe that our spirits need to be witnessed by one another in order to properly integrate our ever-evolving selves.
I believe we need to feel and experience the polarities of joy and grief in our bodies, so much so that we need to create spaces specifically for these emotions and all that comes with them.
I believe that we need a space to express and share gratitude and to honor the abundance that is present in order to stay grounded in a shared reality with others.
I believe we have inner children and inner elders who need communal spaces to explore and be nurtured across the span of our meaningful lives as we propel across space and time with one another.
I believe it is the spirits responsibility to remember, and in so we must all become better story holders and tellers in an effort to honor our ancestors, culture, stories and lineages.
I believe healing is possible, and we cannot reach our healing potential in isolation or operating from a place of scarcity.
I believe that narcissism is a spectrum alive in everyone born into an extractive society and I like to define it as such // The inability or acute ability to locate ones wants, needs, desires and/or fears and articulate them in a consensual manner to themselves and to others.
I believe humans have learned how to hoard emotional and social capital, and we must learn how to redistribute these resources amongst ourselves.
I have come to believe that fitting in is the polar opposite of belonging.
I believe song, dance and community are all birthrights that have been commodified in an effort to oppress as well as be sold back to the people.
I know we are the medicine to ourselves and the medicine to others.
With all those things in mind (& that's the short list) I would like to offer rituals that I trust will develop and heal parts of the whole that colonization has taken from myself and my fellow beings.
Rabbit hole even deeper into my mind here: “What Seeding Community means to me”.
Thank you for witnessing me.
Blessings ☮️
