Yes, And. (a free ten minute guided meditation)
Remember it's okay to be 'extra' (v2.25.23)
Hey, there fellow peacocks! Today’s extra info is content, but sending it is a message too. You can be extra. If that’s all you get from this, cool. Other details follow, but you are unfolding, and as you spill over the boundaries you or others have set for you, own the new space! (see peacock above)
Many of our upbringings didn’t allow for difference. We were enmeshed with family scripts, and branching out was considered disloyal, dangerous, and even prideful. So yeah, that’s over because it was never authentic living anyway. It was controlling, diminishing, and if we struggled with worth, we were easy targets. As Ms. Lauryn Hill sings, “My emancipation don’t fit your equation.”
Here’s a fantastic podcast featuring Sonja Renee Taylor of The Body is Not an Apology. Her book is excellent, and I’ve heard her in other interviews, but something about this episode frames her ideas nicely, and there are some amazing zingers:
A quick takeaway: Radical self-love is not conditional but about our inherent state of enoughness. Later she points out that not feeling like enough makes each of us profitable to many people and systems. Therefore there aren’t any voices communicating the idea of enoughness. So, be in confrontation with stories of not enough or too much.
From Father Gregory Boyle’s Homeboy Industries, an outreach to LA gang members. “We don’t aim to ready folks to survive as the fittest, but to thrive as the nurtured.”
A reminder to resist above. Your humanity is an annoyance to the ways of the world of profits. It’s something to exploit, not welcome and respect. Your peace of mind, wellness, enoughness, and uniqueness will stick out.
Stay well, Feral Souls. See you next Thursday.