Relating, always relating
A random list o 18 tings
Knowing when a person needs space, and giving it to them, is a love language.
One day at a time. Most days it’s one moment at a time.
Slowing down, allowing life to unfold instead of trying to control every aspect, every moment, takes intense work.
Trusting the messages of our guides and ancestors is a practice.
Unraveling our social indoctrination is an ongoing practice. There are layers and layers, and while we will never get through all of them in one lifetime, we need to get through as many as possible.
Breaking cycles of harm is both an inside and outside job. This is (r)evolution.
So many are doing the vital work of changing the world on the outside but are still utilizing the Master’s Tools in their relationships. This is problematic.
For there to be lasting change, we have to see and then expunge the ways we contribute to and are complicit with the systems of harm.
The body always remembers.
We can love deeply, intensely, intentionally, passionately and not have to see or talk to the person every day. We can love in way that consumes us and still have a full life outside of them. We can have times of melding and soul merging and still maintain our autonomy and individual agency.
The nuclear family and patriarchal romantic love narratives are tired and false. We humans were never evolved to live in such stunting and isolating conditions.
Loving someone means wanting their happiness and safety regardless of whether we are a part of that or not.
Monoheteronormativity is destroying our souls.
We can’t own other people. More of us should stop trying to.
Integrating people into our lives is a slow process. And it should be.
One of the beautiful things about loving freely with a broken open heart is the utter lack of judgement. We can note that people are making choices for themselves that we wouldn’t make, or even wish they wouldn’t make, and still know they are on their own path and journey, continue loving them as they are, and let it be (assuming it doesn’t negatively impact our own lives, and if it does then we still can be nonjudgmental while enacting our own boundaries as need be).
Some people help us glow and shine in ways that are perhaps don’t make sense, and that I believe is magic.
Expectations, assumptions, and demands will destroy any relationship. This includes our human and non-human relationships.
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Embodied Relating Practice Group. A new offering for paid subscribers, meeting two to three times per month, focusing on somatics, embodiment, natural rhythms, reconnecting to intuition, ancestral connection, boundaries, grief metabolization, and collective and individual healing, (r)evolution, and connection. Details, including dates and general itinerary for each gathering, coming soon.
Tarot Readings Every month I offer four readings and they are given on a first come, first served basis. If you are interested in having a reading done by me, you can email me at raimondi dot gwynn at gmail dot com with Tarot/Oracle Request in the subject line and I will get back to you with questions and payment information. You can also learn more here.
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