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Why You Shut Down During Conflict: The Freeze Response

You start a hard conversation steady, and somewhere in the middle you shut down. Here is what is actually happening.

The One Where Aphrodite Loses Her Power

Culture has long made the feminine more acceptable by stripping away its danger, complexity, and power. Aphrodite’s transformation from warlike, dark, and sovereign to a goddess known only for love and beauty is a perfect example of that erasure.

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this is 37. another turn of the wheel. another invitation into the complexities of being human. another brush up against the gift of being alive. another revelation of the cycles and seasons of identity, experience and becoming.

what a strange thing

$life became so much more fun when I stopped taking my identity so seriously and allowed myself even a fraction of space to play and explore, not just who I was, but who I wanted (or was curious) to be. more recently I’ve started seeing the peop$

reminders for what is true ✨🌀 take what you need, leave the rest 💛 x

remembering today that being is most powerful when you are being *yourself*. there is a narrative out there that you have to look a certain way or be a certain way in certain spaces to be powerful and I call bullshit.

you do not have to perform powe

Remembering today that before all else I’ve always been a writer whose worldview was woven together by women who refused to let society tell her who she could be.

Women who were knights. Women who held positions of unmatched power. Women who w

been thinking about the some of the most beautiful lessons I’ve learned from my most painful experiences. this one really slaps. because the truth is.. what’s out there (the places your curiosity, honesty and courage can take you) is so m

I keep coming back to this idea of open hands, and how when we cling (to the things we know, the things we love, the things we want..) our hands remain closed to possibility.

Everything you seek is seeking you.

Opening your hands is not giving up.

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