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Back in 2009, when I first moved to Portland and first began to put myself out there as a fledgling massage therapist, I started to develop some right upper leg and hip pain. I didn’t think a lot of it, and it would come and go over the years, sometimes screaming at me loudly and other times quiet and in the background. It was pretty silent for a few years and then started up again maybe 8 years ago, so loudly that I was concerned.

Right now, so many folks are feeling that calling from within to meet this moment, but aren’t sure how to live it in the world. So many of you feel that spell dissolving, but it’s being met with lifetimes of protective mechanisms stored in your body, built to keep you safe. And keep you small. This is the Witch Wound.

Regardless of how something is broken, forgotten, or separated, the process of healing is almost always a slow and intentional one. Stitch by stitch, we mend something back together. Breath by breath, we remember to come back into relationship with a part of us we’ve discarded. And through this process of repair, what has been broken or separated weaves itself back to wholeness again. Remembers its true form.

Are you healed enough yet? Healing holds many paradoxes, and I believe the healing path invites us to hold these paradoxes as part of the healing. So what I want to explore over the next few weeks here are the nuances of healing, the beauty of healing, and what gets in the way of our actual healing.

One of the core tenets to my work is that our own healing, and our own somatic experience can never be extracted from the living Earth body. For when we try to “heal” as individuals, or when we try to balance our nervous systems while leaving out the integral piece of inter-relationality, we are always missing the mark. So many of us are seeking healing. Seeking clarity. Seeking purpose. We long to feel whole, to know who we are, and to remember what we’re here to offer.

We are in a time of great awakening out of the illusion of separation, into the remembrance that a different way is possible. And in the meantime, it’s heartbreaking to witness seemingly endless atrocities to our beloved human family and our earth kin as well. It’s a strange time to be living in. Filled with hope and beauty and grief and rage and shock and joy and love.

As a highly sensitive empath, I always felt like the modern world was harsh, unkind, and disconnected from the true nature of reality. It stripped life of the very real magic I knew to be true in the deepest part of my body.​Growing up, never felt like I fit in.​I contorted myself to fit into the false narratives and expectations that this world puts on us. I felt like an outsider, always hiding my deeper mystical self who I felt glimmers of, but who was covered up in layers

Multiple things can be true at once, even seemingly opposing things. And this email is an invitation into living paradox as a spiritual and relational practice. When we intentionally engage with living paradoxes, we stretch our capacity for nuance and mystery. We become more comfortable with the texture of life, the subtle layers beneath the surface. We become more integrated and less polarized within ourselves, and therefore create more unification in the collective consciou

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