Thanks Yazzie, I came home from work today feeling so hopeless with everything and sitting on the sofa stumbled across this. Reading it was just what I needed. We pick ourselves up and we fight on 💛
Izzy 🥹 thank you so much for sharing this, I am so glad we could share that moment with you on the sofa. I have a poem which I will share here in full in another post,and one of the lines is “I don’t know how we house all of this, other than we must” and it’s basically that. We use our grief as our foundation, take our breath as our strength, and move forward with whatever we have, as tiny or as a big as we can muster. Its good to have you here🌹
Deep thanks Yazzie. I can't find the words, too many so they don't come out formed. But I am so grateful for this. I think I have been really feeling the privilege of being able to be horrified from afar. For some reason (as in why those over all the others), the images from Gaza yesterday have made me feel the gulf between my life and theirs, and I think I was probably at risk of getting into the 'shame spiral' (thank you Nova!) that I don't do enough. This piece has reframed that - which doesn't mean I can't be doing more, but it does mean my solar plexus can breath again and I can set down that heaviness some. I think it's something like that!! xx
Clare it’s so good to have you here 🥹 and couldn’t be more relatable. The privilege of being horrified from afar and the desperation of wanting it to stop vs having the comfort and safety of our homes is a constant head fuck. It doesn’t stop and serves no end though, so I try as best I can to sideline it and pick one thing I can do to channel the energy instead of waste. Even if it’s just hiding all of the Israeli hummus in Sainsbury’s for the day 🤷🏾♀️ So so glad to hear it gave you a reframe and so happy to have you here 💜🙏🏽
I’m so glad you picked up on the moment to stop pretending 💜 and the picture. Did you see the words accompanying it too? They were part of a carousel post on IG, I’ll DM it to you 🙏🏽
Just read the words that go with it. Mmmmmmmmmm. So nourishing. I have a current declaration around seeds and trauma as well so it goes to show how the more we do the work the more interdependent we become not only with people but with land, water and all living organisms.
Thank you dearest Yazzie 💔😭 I don’t have words yet & am about to go jump in the cold 🌊 My broken and open heavy heart appreciates every word. Sending love to you 🫂
Thanks Yazzie, I came home from work today feeling so hopeless with everything and sitting on the sofa stumbled across this. Reading it was just what I needed. We pick ourselves up and we fight on 💛
Izzy 🥹 thank you so much for sharing this, I am so glad we could share that moment with you on the sofa. I have a poem which I will share here in full in another post,and one of the lines is “I don’t know how we house all of this, other than we must” and it’s basically that. We use our grief as our foundation, take our breath as our strength, and move forward with whatever we have, as tiny or as a big as we can muster. Its good to have you here🌹
Deep thanks Yazzie. I can't find the words, too many so they don't come out formed. But I am so grateful for this. I think I have been really feeling the privilege of being able to be horrified from afar. For some reason (as in why those over all the others), the images from Gaza yesterday have made me feel the gulf between my life and theirs, and I think I was probably at risk of getting into the 'shame spiral' (thank you Nova!) that I don't do enough. This piece has reframed that - which doesn't mean I can't be doing more, but it does mean my solar plexus can breath again and I can set down that heaviness some. I think it's something like that!! xx
Clare it’s so good to have you here 🥹 and couldn’t be more relatable. The privilege of being horrified from afar and the desperation of wanting it to stop vs having the comfort and safety of our homes is a constant head fuck. It doesn’t stop and serves no end though, so I try as best I can to sideline it and pick one thing I can do to channel the energy instead of waste. Even if it’s just hiding all of the Israeli hummus in Sainsbury’s for the day 🤷🏾♀️ So so glad to hear it gave you a reframe and so happy to have you here 💜🙏🏽
He, he, I love imagining you hiding the hummus! x
A moment to stop pretending ❤️
The Greek waters is also my happy place. My bay lives on Zykynthos island ❤️
I have generational, collective grief coming out of me.
Really really love how you have the picture at the start and the end. That also hit me in a beautiful way ❤️
And holding you in the generational and collective grief. You are so seen in it 🙏🏽 and I’m grateful that you are tending to it
Holding you too, in the spiral of life 🌀
I’m so glad you picked up on the moment to stop pretending 💜 and the picture. Did you see the words accompanying it too? They were part of a carousel post on IG, I’ll DM it to you 🙏🏽
Just read the words that go with it. Mmmmmmmmmm. So nourishing. I have a current declaration around seeds and trauma as well so it goes to show how the more we do the work the more interdependent we become not only with people but with land, water and all living organisms.
Thank you dearest Yazzie 💔😭 I don’t have words yet & am about to go jump in the cold 🌊 My broken and open heavy heart appreciates every word. Sending love to you 🫂
I hope you can give it to the ocean this morning Lina 🌊 🙏🏽