We have to fight for our dreams. Not in a violent way but with determination.
I'm still over here feeling a lot of feelings about the people in the "holistic wellness live your best life community" who are saying "don't get political"
If you want to heal and grow and make your dreams happen WITHOUT being political, WITHOUT recognizing HOW the systems of privilege and oppression we live inside of are influencing you... you are actually being EXTREMELY POLITICAL in your approach in that you are holding up the system in how you live your life.
Not that you are 100% responsible for holding up the system.
But "not getting political" means you are doing your part to uphold it.
LIFE IS SACRED.
HOW you live it matters.
I feel strongly that these colonial imperial systems of privilege and oppression we all find ourselves living inside betray the dignity of life.
I think living a quiet life from inside these systems betrays the dignity of life.
And I won't be quiet about that because I know this is not who we ARE.
Also, naming the obstacles accurately is the best way to figure out how to work around them.
Creative Dreaming is COMPLEX and we are often wrong about where and how we get stuck.
In my post two days ago I wrote about how I'd been feeling this "heaviness" that was making it hard for me to engage in my creative practice in the way I wanted to. It felt heavy and tired and it was too hard to engage.
It wasn't until I accurately identified it as GRIEF that I realized it was FROZEN GRIEF because I was not feeling it... and once I could feel it and sit with it, it melted and changed and then - yes I had grief to feel but I also had the energy and liveliness to engage creatively.
We often make up these stories about WHY we are not doing what we want to do, and then we kind of settle into these stories and wait for them to play out before we take more action.
THIS. NEVER. WORKS. And people spend their whole lives making their dreams smaller than they are.
Your dreams are HUGE and WILD and SACRED and NEEDED. Anything that wants to shrink them should be named and faced and dealt with.
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