I’m divesting from the broligarchy to connect more deeply to my people (that’s you)
Embodied right relationship + community = resistance
I've had it. I'm frozen. I'm screaming with rage from inside my turtle shell.
This is the state I’ve been existing in for the last three weeks. From navigating the Los Angeles fires, to watching in horror as our country officially descends into a fascist regime, from supporting my trans clients in trying to find safety, helping my LA-based clients contend with evacuations and air quality, and holding friends who’ve lost their homes in their grief, I find myself in an absolute state of overwhelm and dissociation (activate turtle shell), and at the same time, feeling a grave urgency to mobilize and resist (where’s the pillow to scream into?).
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been feeling this too.
It all feels like impossible math, trying to figure out how to survive and thrive amidst all this chaos.
My trauma-informed training tells me I need to find more regulation, and more mobilization. How do we do so in an increasingly unsafe world?
It’s normal to be contending with dissociation and overwhelm, but let’s not stay here. What are some glimmers, what are some small movements that can help us reclaim our bodies and capacity to impact change?
It starts with the body. A bigger breath. Feet on the ground. Finding sensation inside. Anything that moves, reminding you of your limbs and lungs.
What is moveable, actionable, even the tiniest bit?
It has become evident that all major social media platforms that I have cultivated followings on are controlled by the broligarchy. I feel sick to my stomach whenever I impulsively open them 16 times a day (okay probably a lot more but who’s counting).
I’m craving more soulful content, more nourishment and more meaningful connection with my community, and I know I’m not the only one. I crave a conversation that is impactful and leads to mobilization and change. So, I’m divesting from the broligarchy to connect more deeply to my people.
I’m hoping you’ll join me here in this conversation.
I’m starting this substack as an embodied act of resistance.
Writing is one way I can commit to mobilize my nervous system - one way I can be in continual practice of action, through writing with and through my embodied experience. Whatsmore, it’s a way I can be in more consistent connection with my far-and-wide community - because I KNOW so many of us are in this fight together, and it is ultimately more nourishing to feel this connection and kindredness on the regular.
I have always adored writing and my style has spanned genres of poetical prose to academic. You can expect that to continue here - some posts will be more poetical musings and explorations of the human condition, relationships and embodiment, while others will take a more academic and analytic approach to decolonization through the body, liberation, interdependence and right relationship. All of it comes from an embodied lens.
Essentially this substack is about the body and right relationship.
And that includes a lot of different things that I’m passionate about. Things like healing codependence, healing from sex and love addiction and toxic relationship dynamics, learning how to be in healthy romantic relationships and friendships.
Trauma-informed somatics, dance and embodiment as vehicles of healing and reclaiming our birthright of the body, exploring ancestry and indigeneity and the remembrance of right relationship.
Being in collective healing and collective resistance.
And other things I am still discovering that I am passionate about. I’m letting this be emergent and being in the discovery along the way.
Will you be on this discovery journey with me?
I’m committing to publishing a post here once a week. I’d be delighted for you to join me in this practice of embodied liberation through the written word.
I’m hopeful that as I gain traction and consistency, I will be offering even more content and a paid subscription option to deepen in with the work of embodied right relationship.
