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Reflections On Feeling Safe in Your Body:

Self-Forgiveness, Your Lotusverse, and  the ceasefire within

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! 

This is the perfect day to explore Feeling Safe in Your Body. Indigenous people have been and currently are being stripped of their humanity. Food supply is being controlled, health facilities destroyed and basic human choices obliterated. Acknowledge the existence of indigenous populations in your country and the land they preserved so that you have a country. 

Acknowledge the existence of the indigenous populations worldwide 🌍Palestine, Australia, Congo, Cameroon, Yemen and many other places where mass #genocide is happening. Indigenous girls as young as eleven are taking birth control to delay their periods due to lack of sanitary supplies and sometimes it’s naturally occurring and mothers are miscarrying babies. They don’t have indoor plumbing and must be guarded to take care of their personal  hygiene. 

Yes you may not resonate with that level of insecurity and yours may be body dysmorphia. This is a form of psychological slavery which subliminally causes you to look the other way because you don’t feel safe in your body, therefore unsure or afraid to protect the rights of others. 

Throughout this article I will intertwine and make connections between you and indigenous women. As you read, think about how you feel in your body and honoring the sanctity of your desires. In my recent conversations, events and research, I see more and more how internalized a woman’s pain is and the words that sprang forth for me were: Self-Forgiveness, Your Lotusverse, and  the Ceasefire within. Slowly the pieces are reconfiguring into an embodiment puzzle. Your experiences are your experiences and for you. Give yourself grace and self-forgiveness.

The self-forgiveness begins with acknowledging that sex has been weaponized and for that narrative to persist women’s bodies must be objectified. Little girls being told that sex is only for marriage and for procreation is the beginning of the inculturation of “you are an object and this is what you are good for”. That is what we are seeing reinforced with  recent legislation determining what gynecological services are available to women. Similarly girls approaching puberty in countries without access to feminine sanitary products are effectively told that their bodily functions are insignificant. Somewhere within, you are asking why must I validate my existence and why are there laws about my sexuality outside of my control? It seems unconscionable in the twenty-first century, right? And it is what keeps women enslaved. The slavery is psychological. So the reclamation of women’s collective sovereignty begins with denying the inculturation of female insignificance. Slow down and see the institutional constructs embedded into our society. Women are considered unprofessional when they express their emotions, dismissed for following their intuition, and shamed for owning her sexuality as a spiritual practice. So what is a human who denies her emotions, abandons her intuition (embodied wisdom) and is ashamed to be self-expressive? 

A slave

Free yourself to Be. Anxiety and depression is the result of  your normalized survival mode. Yes the daily grind of maintaining the family schedule, care of elderly parents, food prep while maintaining a career has you in survival mode.

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