This world's been heavy. This country feels backwards and broken.
My heart waivers between heavy and angry and tired and numb. Yours too?
It's all so damn much.
All our Autonomic Nervous Systems are overwhelmed. And when overwhelmed we perceive greater aloneness and reckon with our sense of belonging.
In a world where it can be hard to stay present, make presence your practice.
Presence offers an antidote to the aloneness perceived in darkness. Shared moments of resonance feed our souls in days dark like these.
I invite you to practice with me. We can't practice it enough.
"I value you. You matter. I value me. I matter. I value us. We matter." Place a hand on your heart and belly to take your practice a little deeper.
Reach out to loved ones, friends you've lost contact with, catch the gaze of a stranger —and all people you meet in life (your postal worker, kid's teacher, grocery clerk, banker, fuel attendant, physician...everyone)— and remind them that they too matter.
Our collective humanity matters.
WHAT I’VE BEEN READING…
The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning by Resmaa Menakem
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brené Brown
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Us: Getting Past You & Me to Build a More Loving Relationship by Terry Real
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
