I want to share some body-based realism for this moment in time.
I’m a woman who - for better or for worse - has always felt deeply the injustice of the world and the pain and suffering of others, but also with a clear vision of what could be.
Fresh out of college I worked in shelters for women and children who were survivors of domestic violence. I volunteered for an alternative school in Brazil working with kids living on the streets. I came back to CA and worked in a teen pregnancy prevention program. I went on to get my Masters in Latin American Studies with a focus on Gender and Public Health, interviewing sex workers in Ecuador, among others.
After many intense years of this work, I collapsed.
I was trying to heal the world but I didn’t know how to nurture health in my own body and mind. I was trying to create beauty in the world, but I struggled to find it in my own life.
Finding my way back to health from that collapse is why I do what I do today. I learned about my own life force, the power and limitations of that, and how to heal the root of dis-ease. I learned medicine that goes right to the source, not just in our individual bodies, but in the collective.
Please don’t get me wrong. That work I was doing - and what many people around the world continue to do today - is profoundly important work…but it’s not my dharma.
The system is built so the easiest thing we can do right now is mainline the horrors of the world. Our body and mind may not know the difference between whether it’s happening to us or not. We can just as easily exhaust our energy digesting it and trying to fix it all. Or trying to fix it by digesting it all. If we get overwhelmed absorbing all of it, we will be far less impactful in the areas where we could make the biggest difference.
If we are tenderhearted and have a strong desire to make the world a better place, it’s crucial - perhaps now more than ever - for us to get real with ourselves about what our path is and to channel our life force in that direction. That means recognizing we have finite energy and attention, respecting those limitations, and tending to our vessel as the powerful force of nature that it is. That does not mean navel-gazing and self-obsessing. It means becoming a master at cultivating our own vitality and being conscious and strategic about how and where we put that into the world.
You are what you eat…not just through your mouth but through all your senses. And that’s where your greatest power lies right now.
So I’ll ask you:
🌿 What “food” does your body, mind and spirit need right now so you can do your good work in the world?
🌿 What do you need to protect your senses from?
🌿 What is right in front of you in your life right now? What you can touch, see, taste, hear, smell?
🌿 Is your life one of relative safety? Are you embodied and present enough in it so you can feel that?
Our clarity, our joy, our eros, and our wisdom are how we nurture and nourish a better world. We do not ignore the suffering. We hold it in our hearts, in communion with the beauty of life. We stay on target and move our energy like a warrioress.
Much love,
Courtney
P.S. I have availability for 1:1 Sessions in March. If you have physical or emotional challenges you want to address, want to work on cultivating stronger, more stable energy, or need nervous system support, you can schedule an Ayurvedic/Somatic 1:1 Session here.
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