WE are the work
What do I mean by “WE are the work”?
When I say that “we are the work,” what I mean is that WE have and always will be US; all part of the same species. I want to belong, to feel safe, to be respected, to experience connection, and to give and receive love. You too, right? In a world where belonging, safety, respect, connection, and love feel out of reach, it is all of our work to ensure that these fundamental human needs are accessible to everyone—so that we can move from surviving to thriving. Work that WE must do both individually and collectively.
Why does this start with learning to feel, better?
Our feelings are the language of our Higher Self, the part of us that knows that all beings are equally deserving of belonging, safety, respect, connection, and love—regardless of our faith, our history, our race, our gender expression, or our sexuality. Feeling, better, means becoming aware of what we are feeling, and why—so that we can start to operate from a Higher Self perspective in all areas of life.
Why do we need to feel, better?
The world we live in teaches us not to feel—because there is no place for our Higher Selves within the hierarchical status quo. The hierarchies that we live in require us to believe that some of us are more deserving than others in order to perpetuate. When we feel, better, we disrupt this programming.
Example: a lineage of misogyny makes me feel anxious about how I look. Feeling, better, helps me see that that problem is not how I look; the problem is misogyny. Now I can start to do the work of dismantling my own internalized misogyny, and calling it out wherever I see it in the world.
How do we feel, better?
The transition from not feeling to feeling, better, is going to be painful and messy. But it is the only way that we will be able to access our full humanity. We can start to feel, better, by sharing our stories and resources with each other, in community, without expectation and judgment. By shining a light on why WE feel the way WE do, these conversations have the power to undo the conditioning and the generational patterns that are keeping us trapped.