I’m being called back to the Labyrinth. Labyrinths are ancient and date back 4,000 years or more. These meandering paths are spiritual and meditative tools rooted in Sacred Geometry. And unlike mazes, they have a singular path into and out of the center. Before seated mediation and prolonged stillness were accessible to me, the Labyrinth offered me a way …
The true source of our power and our wisdom lives within us. And that is where embodiment and energy work can help us to come home to ourselves and rediscover how to trust, love and listen to our inner-voice.
We have been denied opportunities to heal. Within Capitalism and Colonialism we are not taught how to heal. But, SELF HEALING is one of the most profound things that we can do this lifetime.
As a young mixed woman who did not have language to understand my racial experience or identity. But here I am today stepping out from the space between. I am a Person of Color raised within the confines of whiteness setting myself free with the power of my story and my voice.
Affirmations are a powerful practice for any of us working to reprogram our beliefs. The point of affirmations is not to avoid the bad or deny the bad but it is to give ourselves more space to focus on what we want instead of what we do not want.
I had to learn how to heal and metabolize that pain in hopes of reconciling my relationship with myself so I could move on to live the life I wanted (rather than constantly trying to manage my pain). Each of us that chooses to heal and metabolize past pain and trauma are creating the better way. We are choosing not to continue the cycle of harm but to interrupt it and heal.
There those of us unable to join the quarantine. We have been deemed “essential.” We find ourselves drafted for a war most people are fighting in isolation.
I cannot get where I am going the same what I cot here. Sometimes we need to release to make room for what we really want, and let go so we can fly.
When I think of my journey I move between the belief that there is not much to tell and the belief that there is so much to tell there is not enough time or focused care. I am moving away from this duality because I know that our experiences, our stories, our relationships with each …