November 8, 2024

A community check-in. Hi 👋

This is a reminder to stay embodied in your current lived experience, again and again and again.

This is a reminder that for right now, you can return to presence in your body. You can look at the immediate world around you, right now, today.

Stay in your lived experience.

How are you? How’s your heart? Are you devastated by the US election? Or neutral (perhaps you’re not in the USA, or have no connections to the country)? Or maybe you’re celebrating, in which case I don’t understand you, but if you’re still on my page now reading this, I’d like to think we have something in common.

Today I’m feeling big feelings followed by total dissociation.

As someone who hasn’t lived here for nearly 15 years, it’s shocking to me that this is where America is, as a country, right now.

Electing a convicted felon who staged a coup in his own country after he lost the last election (and holds values as a human that I find abhorrent) feels rather gauche.

And? I’m here. In this country. Now. I feel like it is my mission today (and in the next days too) to remind people and the collective that *we* are the light. Whatever is happening, it’s going to happen whether we obsess over every opinion piece and news article that we can, or we don’t.

I cut my teeth on this weird platform (Instagram) during Covid, sharing thoughts about how it wasn’t all despair and it wasn’t all misery.

I want to share those things today, too.

From my heart to yours, sending big love.

p.s. if you want to start a conversation about this or anything related, feel free to comment below and/or send me a dm ✍️