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Funny Not Ha-Ha
Healing is not a linear process. It’s a hard thing to wrap my head around, since I experience this world in a primarily linear fashion. But I know the truth of it is that healing—whether it’s physical, emotional, or spiritual—takes a curvy and confusing route.
Hello, lovelies!
This blog post is a little bit tardy, because I’ve been funneling a lot of time and energy into a thing. A Big Thing, actually. This last week I recorded my first (and second, to go live today) video. Ever. I created my first GoFundMe. And I’ve sent out personal emails to a bunch of people from my life, current and past, who’ve had an impact on me.
One thing I’ve noticed over the last few days is how much creation feeds into my spiritual practices, and how much my spiritual practices then feed back into my creativity. An example: Saturday night I performed a new moon ritual, and on Sunday I got up early, did Yoga, and went to services at my local Center for Spiritual Living. Afterward, I went to a nearby cemetery and buried the melted wax and offerings from my ritual. I felt really connected and grounded and full up on Spirit.
Lie on your back in a dimly lit, comfortable space. A bed is a nice place, but anywhere you can be assured of not being interrupted is good. If it helps you stay focused, put on some light, unobtrusive music, preferably without vocals, or with vocals in a language you don’t speak.
Happy new year! I don’t know about you, but 2019 was a wild ass ride. I’d bet good money you’d say the same about your own journey through the last year of the decade. On a global scale we’re facing political divisiveness that just gets uglier and uglier and climate change that leaves entire continents on fire. (Oh my God, Australia.) We keep seeing school and mass shootings, our suicide rate is climbing, and anxiety, depression, and autoimmune disorder rates are escalating too.
In this week’s episode, In Praise of the Little Bits, I talk a bit about my own journey with perfectionism, starting in my childhood. I was raised by an authoritarian ex-military father, in an evangelical church, and in public school. Each of these three pillars of my life asked me to be a certain way—a way that I, fundamentally, could not be. As a result, I picked up a lot of programming about how I wasn’t good enough, that I was broken, that I couldn’t be loved.