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these hips are big hips
they need space to
move around in.
they don’t fit into little
petty places. these hips
are free hips.
they don’t like to be held back.
these hips have never been enslaved,
they go where they want to go
they do what they want to do.
these hips are mighty hips.
these hips are magic hips.
i have known them
to put a spell on a man and
spin him like a top!
Lucille Clifton
I never feel more given to
than when you take from me –
when you understand the joy I feel
giving to you.
And you know my giving isn’t done
to put you in my debt,
but because I want to live the love
I feel for you.
To receive with grace
may be the greatest giving.
There is no way I can separate
the two.
Ruth Bebermeyer
Thank you Haley
When you find an addiction, do not be ashamed. Be joyful. You have found something you have come to this earth to heal. When you confront and heal an addiction, you are doing the deepest spiritual work that you can do on this earth.
– Gary Zukov
Instead of trying to silence your mind chatter,
simply love the one who wants to chat.
Instead of trying to shift your emotions,
just love the one who can’t stop feeling.
The Mother Wound has been a blind spot of women’s empowerment up to this point. Even the most evolved among us have avoided looking at this issue. Healing the Mother Wound is the next frontier of feminism, as it functions as the linchpin of our most insidious forms of self-limitation, the very subtle and invisible ways we hold ourselves back in order to secure love, safety and belonging. These insidious self-limiting patterns have been passed down from mother to daughter for centuries. The time to stop the cycle is NOW.
Bethany Webster
today i saw myself for the first time
when I dusted off
the mirror of my mind
and the woman looking back
took my breath away
I’m sorry,
Please forgive me,
Thank you,
I love you.
To vulnerable me, from critical me.
❤️????
Hawai’ian practice of reconciliation and forgiveness
The worst thing we ever did
was put God in the sky
out of reach
Once, I ran from fear
so fear controlled me.
Until I learned to hold fear like a newborn.
Listen to it, but not give in.
Honour it, but not worship it.
Fear could not stop me anymore.
I walked with courage into the storm.
I still have fear,
but it does not have me.
I am firmly of the view that this societal fixation on forgiving others is just another way that we bypass our own rightful anger, confusion, sense of loss. It is also a way that victims end up feeling blamed for their experience.