Being accountable doesn’t mean hanging my head in shame or hating myself forever. It doesn’t mean letting people walk all over me for having made mistakes in my past. It doesn’t mean taking on the entire situation as if I’m the only one who played a role. Once I stop my harmful behavior and atone for my transgressions, when I have cleared my debt, I am free.
Read MoreHaving very specific trauma & mental illnesses, not everyone is always equipped to deal w such topics & even if they are, they may not want to. And that’s okay. Boundaries are necessary structures for building and maintaining healthy relationships. I want my page & practice to be more trauma-informed and I want to be a safer space for my community, which doesn’t only mean holding space, but also cultivating that space.
Read MoreIn this less than ideal world in which we live-- fraught with unjust hierarchies rooted in absurd and erroneous assumptions, plagued by an enormous disparity in resources and quality of life, belabored by oppressive systems -- few of us can easily escape the asphyxiating weight of those things that seek to destroy us because it is built into the exploitative systems that govern our lives. We are forced to live within the perilous framework of a society that seeks our destruction, keeping us alive only enough to sustain its own vampiric siphoning of our life force.
Read MoreEvery moment of our Lives is a choice, and the moment I began to choose mySelf was the moment that the narcissists in my Life began to clear out. At first, it hurt terribly, but I now realize that it is a wonderful gift! The emptiness is no longer a pit of despair but a sanctuary of Self, to be filled with that which truly honors my Being. Having made more peace with mySelf than ever, I am proud to say that I enjoy my own company much more than that of anyone else. I am grateful and honored by the Space that was cleared in this time of Death & Rebirth.
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