Figuring Sh!t Out

to remain tender is a gift.
this episode is an exploration of everything i've learned about love.
put simply:
"we have all known the bliss of sunshine hitting our skin on a cold day, and we have all belly laughed until our breaths disappeared, and we have all come home chewed up by the world and sunken deep into a familiar withering, and we are all either healing from something or learning how to hold it, running from something or learning how to return - because we have all loved and we have all lost, and we have all mistaken losing for a promise that it was never safe to love. and we have all been wrong about that."
- from my essay "let me remember you" which you can read here on my Substack
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If the devil can't get to you, he will make you rush.
"We think our limits live in the dreams we don’t chase, in the tasks we put off, in the emotions that we avoid - but they’re most alive in all of the small ways we deny our right to enjoy life.
In the ferocious hurry between movements, in the relentless devotion to our False God of Control that promises certainty we never actually find.
We yearn for love, but refuse to let life touch us. 
Even when it’s right in our hands - fragrant, bright, asking only to be received, we mistake consumption for communion." - Realizations from Near Death
Let this episode bring you home. 
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I recorded this for the woman whose thought about joining this retreat but told herself it wasn't possible. This episode a full, honest walkthrough of why this retreat exists, what it's grounded in, who it's for, and what we will be creating in the jungle together.
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"I learned how to reach for my dreams with a shaky hand. And time and time again, I’ve seen that once they are in my palms - it makes no difference if I really believe they should be there or not. Because here they are. In my hands. I cannot drop them. I have claimed them. They are a gift and yet - they have always been mine."
- an excerpt from my most recent essay "Dreams" (which I read to you in this episode <3) 
This episode sits inside of the humbling silence of realizing you've been playing it small when you've always been meant to shine - that you've been playing it safe when you've always been divinely protected to expand.
Your dreams already believe in you.
There is nothing to change here, nothing to fix, and nothing to do.
There is only remembering. 
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We won’t ever say it aloud - but most of us hold an ideal of perfection inside of our self-development routines.
And after spending enough time nipping and tucking away pieces of ourselves that we don't like in an effort to curate the most acceptable, palatable, "perfect" version of us - what many of us will find is this:
We are only as whole as we are able to accept the parts of us that don’t make us feel like it. 
We are only as healed as we are able to hold our brokenness. 
We are only as loving as we are to the pieces of us that we can’t fathom. 
And we will come to know, by peering into the depths of our own hearts long enough to see the it's shadows, that the space that is our bodies was created to hold love for our imperfect flesh. 
This episode is another reflection on a topic that is core to Figuring Sh!t Out: Shadow-Work. It is a continued conversation from recent dialogue on stretching our capacity for complexity within us and expanding our conscious creation in this world.
May it be a friend to you when you feel the tenderness of being deeply human.
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