Kinship

The way that Kaitlin Curtice, award-winning author, poet-storyteller, and public speaker describes kinship with self, other women, and mother earth, touched me deeply. I thought long and hard about how to share her with all of you, when I realized that directly sharing her words with you, is the way to go.

So, for the first time ever, I am stepping aside and sharing the “microphone”. I give you a podcast and its notes. The podcast starts slowly, hang in there until the 25th minute or so. It’s well worth it.

Glennon Doyle. We Can Do Hard Things. Episode 187. 5 Ways to Be More Present.

1. How to listen to the signals our bodies give us, and other concrete strategies to hold on to being human.
2. The healing power of honoring and reconnecting with our little girl selves and with our Mother Earth.
3. How, if all else fails, we can practice presence and embodiment by talking to a house plant.
4. The traumatizing effect of purity culture, colonization, and assimilation, and how to come home to the wholeness of our core nature, desire, and wisdom.
5. Concrete, everyday acts of rebellion that help us regain what we lost, and restore us to who we really are.