What have you had to leave behind in order to belong?
Your voice?
Your knowing?
Your needs?
Your wildness?
Your dreams?
The parts of you that never quite fit?
What if what you learned to hide
is part of what you are here to bring?
You don't quite know what you need anymore.
What you want.
What you trust.
And still—
beneath the exhaustion,
beneath the fear,
beneath all the ways you have learned to make yourself smaller, quieter, safer—
there you are.
Still alive beneath all of it.
Maybe your body has started saying
what you have not been able to say:
“Enough!”
Perhaps you have become very good at holding it all.
Caring.
Giving.
Doing what needs to be done.
Being who others need you to be.
And somewhere along the way,
you stopped hearing yourself.
We have become very good
at looking outside ourselves
for the answers.
Asking others,
“Tell me what my body needs.
“Tell me who I am.
“Tell me what I should do.
“Tell me how to heal, or become whole again.”
And hoping someone will hand us back to ourselves.
I will not become another person to whom you outsource yourself.
I will stand beside you as you stop long enough to hear yourself again.
This is a work of re-membering.
Bringing back into belonging what has been silenced, rejected, exiled or forgotten.
Your body.
Your voice.
Your knowing.
Your desires.
Your gifts.
My work is about finding
our way back into relationship.
With ourselves.
With one another.
With the Earth.
And discovering what becomes possible when we do.
Remembering is only the beginning.
Then comes the courageous work of living it.
Becoming all that you are here to become.
Unapologetically.
Listening when your body speaks.
Resting when it says stop.
Saying no.
Saying yes.
Speaking what is true.
Taking up your space.
Trusting what you know.
Letting yourself be seen.
Because this has never been only about you.
The way of being we long for in the world is something we must begin to practice in our own lives, and in relationship.
If I want a world where difference belongs,
can I allow my own difference to belong?
If I want others to find their voices,
am I willing to speak?
If I want a world that listens to bodies and Earth,
am I listening to mine?
If I want freedom,
am I willing to practice being free?