Welcome

Welcome to the first of many opportunities for us to learn and grow together! Community building has always been one of my favorite activities no matter where life takes me.

And wooo has it taken me some places I never expected to go. I have learned so much, a lot of it the hard way. I prefer others benefit from that so it doesn’t feel in vain.

And that takes me to a very important point on trauma here. Life is vast. Trauma is bad. Sometimes people become traumatized and don’t make it. Or frequently they live out the rest of their lives as a shell of their former selves, unrecognizable to those they loved.

That does not need to be the case through. There is beauty in the process of healing. There is a reason those who come out the other side are grateful for it in spite of the hurt. It changes you. It allows you access to places in your consciousness and the Interconnectedness that you otherwise couldn’t go.

This is a place to celebrate healing and build community. To take away the need for hardened individual resilience and build a system that the colonizers have denied us. A place to heal.

Healing doesn’t happen alone. You can’t heal properly without the cooperation and support of your community and environment.

Not everyone is lucky enough to have that built-in system, so here, together, we’re going to work to do what we can on our own as best we can, while learning how to build the necessary support systems that will make it so others do not have to suffer in the future the same ways we did.

I am going to use this space to share what I have learned that enabled me to get to safety, get my mind calm, my body at peace, and my life back in my control. Simply having someone who has survived it showing you it’s possible can make a huge difference. I lacked that example in my life, so I want to make sure it is there for others who need it.

We’ve got this. We survived this far and nothing is going to take us out now. So, while you’re here, you may as well enjoy the ride, stop to smell the roses…