This piece is so powerful. I appreciate the way you framed it and resonate with the tension of breaking trauma cycles. I'm living in it right now. It's one of the best posts I've read about this topic from a contemplate perspective." What if breaking up with worry is also an act of ancestral honor?"
Stunningly beautiful! I am walking with my own patterns that seem bound up in my DNA and how to let go with them. Thank you for the courage you have to take on such deep explorations and the words you come up with to share them with us, your readers.
"I watched some family pass worry down like an heirloom. It was love’s anxious twin. It was vigilance. It was preparation. It was survival dressed up as concern."
When I was in my twenties I jokes about creating a worry service. Why worry, I'll do it for you.
Beautifully written as always, deeply touching. Love your worry self and set it free. Never been easy for me, but this piece walks the space between.
As I am recovering from a total knee replacement and each step I take, I worry so now I’m going to breathe with each step I take and hopefully the worry will minimize. Thank you for such wise words.
This piece is so powerful. I appreciate the way you framed it and resonate with the tension of breaking trauma cycles. I'm living in it right now. It's one of the best posts I've read about this topic from a contemplate perspective." What if breaking up with worry is also an act of ancestral honor?"
Thank you. I appreciate you reading and feedback.
Wow!!! Yes thank you. So powerful
Such beauty:
“Together, we are walking toward a more peaceful journey.
Some of us including myself, inherited worry before we inherited language-for this we give grace.
For many of us, worry feels safer than hope-for this we give grace.
We learned to brace for the bad before we learned to breathe-for this we give grace.
In a world that keeps shaking, who wouldn’t worry? -for this we give grace
This Black History Month shout with me: Hope is also an inheritance, the strength of water like a river flows through me; us all.
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Thank you Michelle. Thinking of you.
Your being, shared through your words, has layers of depth. I’m so grateful to read and process.
Thanks, Jane
So many beautiful moments, breathtaking exhales, in this beautiful gift of words. Thank you
Thank you
Stunningly beautiful! I am walking with my own patterns that seem bound up in my DNA and how to let go with them. Thank you for the courage you have to take on such deep explorations and the words you come up with to share them with us, your readers.
"I watched some family pass worry down like an heirloom. It was love’s anxious twin. It was vigilance. It was preparation. It was survival dressed up as concern."
When I was in my twenties I jokes about creating a worry service. Why worry, I'll do it for you.
Beautifully written as always, deeply touching. Love your worry self and set it free. Never been easy for me, but this piece walks the space between.
thank you for sharing 💜
Oh Salaam! So many times as I read this I thought, “Wow. I should write that down. And hang it on the wall.”
You are amazing.
As I am recovering from a total knee replacement and each step I take, I worry so now I’m going to breathe with each step I take and hopefully the worry will minimize. Thank you for such wise words.