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Thank you again everyone for being here feel free to put your name pronouns where you're calling in from, and one way that you maintain yourself in the chat.

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And so, for the first event in this series, we're exploring questions around maintaining oneself. We're so grateful to have Ashley, Rheanna, and Sarah here today to share with us. They're each practitioners, and they'll share more about their specific practices.

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We felt that they had a really great expertise in knowing one how to maintain themselves personally, but also because their practices so closely aligned to maintaining 

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Of a human self, of a human mind, and something that we had talked a lot about in preparing for this event is that maintaining oneself is so directly linked to maintaining communities and to maintaining larger movements, and the and the vision for the world that we want to hold and so this

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interconnectedness is something that we will explore throughout this event as well as the others.

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So just a little bit of housekeeping before we get started.

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This event will be recorded, and we will send that out as a reference and hold that as a reference for us in the months and years to come, and at the end of, or at the end of next week.

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Most likely we will have a takeaway document with these resources and ideas for self maintenance that we've gathered. Yeah.

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And so I'm also putting into the chat the event agenda, if you'd like to know. We'll have a little welcome right here, and then we'll pass it to Rheanna Ashley, and then, Sarah, and then open it up for a and for the question, and answers i'll remind

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everyone again. But we will just type them into this chat box that we collectively hold them and be in conversation, and before we dive in to Rheanna, introducing herself, I just I wanted to share that this is my list of self-maintance.

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And I just started brainstorming all these different ways that what's in my world to maintain and it's been a really interesting practice to also.

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Then look at what parts connect to my larger community into larger movements that I'm a part of, and what parts take a lot of time versus which come easily.

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And so it's just become a really interesting practice to think about self maintenance.

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And yeah, I'm really excited to explore explore this today.

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And for now I'm going to pass it over to you, Rheanna.

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Thank you so much, everyone, for being here.

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Great. I just wanted to double check that my screen is visible.

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Awesome, great.

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Awesome. So I wanna say, a good afternoon or Good Friday to everyone it's a pleasure to be, hey?

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I'm Rheanna. Welcome to the spiral of life!

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What zoom is a portal into one moment of our life that will never happen again.

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So it is a pleasure to be here, and full presence. And today I wanna explore this concept called the way of the butterfly on cocoon, an image for those of you who I don't know.

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Nice to meet you, and I come from a background where I've studied ecology, especially in sustainable food systems, where I can in community development.

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I currently work with food food food assistance here in the Caribbean region, and I'm based on the island in Trinidad.

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So I'm gonna go forward. Hey? So to jump right in.

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This is one, creature that I've been connecting closely.

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Some of you in the closer to the equator region.

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As I am in Trinidad. It's called a Moor for Pallades.

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Also the Empire, or more for butterfly. You could also see it in Central America and Southern us, and it's absolutely beautiful, as you can see with some of this vibrant era, vibrant hue.

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It's something that is very rare to see blue, and nature.

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So there's of you who love spending time outdoors, and there's a bit of physics of light like on a nano scale that the way that the light hits be able to have this reflection.

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So I'm gonna be using this as a guide for my talk over the next 10 min.

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So little background the pink dot hair. This is Trinidad, where they live.

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It's the southernmost part of the Caribbean and recently I went to this waterfall, and there's something that's so special for me personally, of being outside.

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I know it's springtime for other persons and parts of the world, and just sit in May. It's a spirit of this Emperor butterfly that I'm trying also to embody, and my day to day that, as I observed the spot with these delicate wings as it

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flies through the tropical rainforest, it pauses, and almost bask in the sun, and then it goes to the next flower, and that's really touched me in a deep level recently, because even in all of our lives not to be too cliche but we're always going from one flower to

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the next in different seasons. Where is this pause that we come, and the picture on the right is an aggregation of the butterflies come together.

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It's absolutely beautiful. So here in the Caribbean, it's a carnival or fast.

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When you come together for different seasons, those to celebrate Easter or Passover.

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Oh, Thanksgiving! That! Yes, we can be really beautiful on our own.

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But when we come together as a community or as an insect species, how incredible is that!

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I wanna zoom in just a little bit because I'm all about patterns in nature and how we see biomimicry.

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So these are eggs of the butterfly.

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Absolutely incredible. Just a little round pattern of the black, and then, as it turns out, opens into the caterpillar.

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Non. Sophisticated, please. Then a little bit brown. But I want us to go now into the pupa stage, because this is something that I and myself you know, who's gone through all sorts of different experiences.

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You're convinced to the emotional spectrum.

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But what is the importance of this paper stage, not only for the butterfly, but for ourselves as well.

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So to begin, I'm gonna guide us in a mindfulness, meditation.

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So I'm gonna show you one of my favorite friends.

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This is my mindfulness, Bell, since I spent time during my masters at a monastery called Palm Village.

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I take it everywhere I go. So I'm gonna write you now into your space.

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So whenever you are just a yourself to be comfortable, see if you can put your 2 feet on the floor for me, and I'm just gonna guide you for the next few minutes so we're gonna move together through different space and time.

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I'm gonna invite the sound of the bell. It's gonna sound like this.

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Beautiful. So, as I talked about.

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I want you to close your eyes for me. I want you to breathe then, and roll your shoulders up into the back of your spine.

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I want you to place your hands, either on your knees, palm space, and down.

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If you wanna let go. Well, palms face enough if you want to receive, and we're gonna take 3 cleanse and breath.

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These are some of my favorites, so as you breathe, then we're gonna breathe in.

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Pulling up the area on the hots, open the mouth and release with this side, let it go.

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Audible sound.

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Again. Second 1, 3 of them in all the way through the nose.

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Into the lungs, open the mouth, and release with the side, let it go.

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Last, one breathe, then through the a little bit more into that space around the heart, now open the mouth, and release completely with the let it all go close in the mouth.

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Just allow your breath to come back to its natural rhythm.

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Feel in the ground by your feet coming in to our sense of touch.

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Maybe feel in the connection of your hands on your size, so on your knees, maybe fill in the cushion below you.

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I'm gonna invite you now to the sense of taste that even if he may not have any food, can we relax our mouth?

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Relaxing our jaw and clench in our mouth.

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To just soften where we hold a lot of tension.

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Come into house sound. Maybe you can hear my voice.

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Bringing that awareness, maybe, to the sound of your breath as it comes in through the nose.

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And as it comes out through the nose, Hello! On your breath to move naturally in and out.

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Maybe you can have a bird in the background.

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Maybe it's the sound of a family member or friend in the next room.

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But coming into that awareness to where you are right now.

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And now coming into our fifth sense, our sight. That as our eyes are closed for those of you who prefer, maybe keep in them open.

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Isn't that something in front of you keeping that forecast?

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For those of you that feel safe enough to close your eyes.

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Maybe you can sense a little bit of light through the window.

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And maybe you can sense, Now look and inward how you, feeling inside.

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As you breathe through the nose.

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Let's send that breath to the nose into the back of the throat into the lungs, and if you exhale, allowing the breath again moving through the chest back out through the nose, nice and slow.

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Did you breathe in naturally? Breathing in, I know that I'm breathing in.

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Breathing out. I know that I am breathing out again, allowing the prana or the breath to move at its own pace.

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Breathing in a little bit more. Send it now. Widening the lungs.

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Into the chest, allowing your rib cage to widen, and as you exhale, drawing your body button into the spine, allowing the chest to come in, breathing out.

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So again moving out of a few rounds. Just so on your own.

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Allow it to be natural, breathe, and in whether it's small piece.

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And with every exhale, at least in any tension, any stress.

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I need to do this, coming into this moment, breathing in.

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Coming into the presence of where you are. Hey? Now!

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And as you breathe out, just letting go softening into your butt.

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And coming home to your breath.

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As your mind wanders, just observe any thoughts like the clouds, but in this moment I'm gonna invite you with your right hand over your left.

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Just ask our body where we might be feeling any tension in this moment.

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Now guide that hand. Maybe it might be to the heart maybe it's the back of the neck to the stomach.

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Wherever your body is calling for just a little bit more care.

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Allowing your breath again to move just like a flow with ease, as you make that connection.

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Maybe we can ask how we feel in this moment.

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For some of us, maybe it might be a sense of joy or gratitude others might be a little nervous, or anxious, or angry, but just welcome at all on the emotional spectrum.

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There's no judgment.

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And again, as you breathe in sending that awareness into the space, and as you breathe out is given some extra care to release what we're holding on.

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To move around, hey? Breathing in no notice in any resistance.

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Being kind and compassionate.

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And as you breathe out, just soften!

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One more time, breathe it in into the full presence of this moment.

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How was that? 

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Enough, fully release.

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Now inviting both of your hands to your heart and friend, joining the fingers.

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And then this moment to gather across the world, just choosing your intention.

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For yourself.

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Whether it's a word of how we would like to maintain.

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Or practice a relationship!

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And once you have that, we're gonna take one deep breath in together.

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And on the exhale, bow in the chin to the heart.

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Taking a pause, a sacred pause, rubbing hands together, making a bit of warmth.

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And now placing in the hands over the eyes. Give yourself a blessing, honor in yourself and your whole being.

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And then slowly blink in the eyes open just like butterfly wings underneath.

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The hands dropping the hands away into the space around you.

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So one of my favorite teachers, allowing yourself just to come back into this moment together, and he says, Breathe!

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And then I know that I'm breathing in and breathing out.

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I know that I am breathing out so hopefully. You feel a bit more clarity.

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But in all of these moments, as this cocoon pause where can we come into the full presence of where we are to stop to say no, and become away with what's happening?

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And the for me, one of my favorites practices is the breath, and how can we see breath?

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Not just as something we do to survive, but as a gateway to feeling what's happening inside, and it's a miracle.

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And to come to that, I'm gonna proceed so you can come out of the cocoon together all of the Emperor butterflies.

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So this is on emergence. So after we take the moment to pause in our day to rest, that what's really special about this type of but aside, is that right on the top, well, the underside of the Emperor's wings, it's a little bit of a dull color

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it's brown, which is good for camouflage.

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You'll see some of the hour like ice. So there's times when we need to rest.

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We don't want any attention from the world, so you can see that from this butterfly but then, when it's time to come out on the do sole side of the butterfly with the dorsal is the top, you have this blue error desk, and these are tiny

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scales that when the light hits it's what causes that effect to have this vivid, iridescent blue so absolutely beautiful.

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I've always blown away by the magic of the science.

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And just a touch model. But about that in nature, as we continue to learn, last thing is something I like to do.

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I like to walk in the forest. So wherever you are just going for a mindful work that nature, too, knows how to say no, when to take a pause, when to take off all the colors and just blend in whether it's underneath the cozy blanket whether it's

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on your couch that there's a there's a moment in life to come out and to work, but then we have to shut off and to almost say No.

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So what happens when you lie down? I wanna share one book that I recommend to everyone that I just read.

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It's called Gathering Moss, by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

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So I wanna invite us that when we able to tune in just like what we did in that guided meditation to actually open our eyes to see, to have a heart to feel.

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This is one quote that she says: there's an ancient conversation going on between mosses and rock poetry to be shown about light and shadow and the drift of continents and interface of immensity and minuteness of past and present softness and hardness stillness and vibrancy yin and

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Yang, and this just touches on the duality of life.

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Why I've been so fascinated with Earth science.

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I've seen all of nature to be a portal into the philosophy of existence, that the same way that happiness and joy we have to know grief.

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And so but the same way that in all the dark and the light that everything always has to coexist, so if we can surrender to almost the duality of life itself, I think sometimes the hardships can be a lot easier I wanna go into some graphics here, it's pretty amazing on their

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right side. It's just a closeup of when you look into a microscope with a teaspoon of soil.

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And then herein this so you can see, like almost a 100 million to 1 billion bacteria, absolutely beautiful.

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And on the left is just the sperm, and an egg to in the fertilization process.

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So I want to show the reflection of our inner ecosystem and the outer ecosystem of which we exist.

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Going in a little bit closer now on the left side. Absolutely amazing.

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This is liver cells, and then on the right. I'll leave sales too, so you can see some of that mitochondria.

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But again, these tiny little patterns that you can see under microscope, that when we take that focus and through meditation, or we can actually understand the science of this phenomenon of our body, that we can also appreciate the life around us as we zoom down, this is an example of a sign up that goes up

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into the brain. So whenever you see a loved one, when you eat something that you really enjoy, and if we were, take that step, pattern of a neuron firing in the brain, but almost looking at a hexagonal shape of a snowflake, or when ice happens with water molecules absolutely amazing I

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don't wanna kick out a little too much. But again I love the sense of all, and one that we have around us each day when we look at the broncos of the lungs, that which we use, that we just breathe together, which is the most powerful thing again, thinking of nature and the trees these

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are, what these beautiful roots here in Trinidad, and like in the rainforest.

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But again the same. That trees are plants that released in the oxygen, and that which we breathe in.

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But there's a coexistence that happens, and mindfulness we call it into being.

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For one to exist, we need the other.

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And then this is one of my favorites. You will guess what the one is on the left.

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But this is actually the gut microbiome almost looks like a spiral.

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So again for those of you who will have in your gut then, on the right, and on the left, you recently see the galaxies, but it was just like that.

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Reminded that the spirals that we see in our gut and test size.

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But then you look out into the night sky, and galaxies themselves being like this, call in systems of dust and gas and dust and dark matter being held up by gravity.

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But it's wild, you know. When I want to share that, that this life in itself is absolutely mind-blowing.

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But at the same time that it's also really sad.

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I wanna remind us that there is that dual side, the tragedy on the left is an example of a loophole which is a form of blood cancer.

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I lost my mom when I was 4 to cancer. From this that where things can go wrong so as much as oh, and miracles that we can see, we can also feel whole class and really down on life, especially coming out of COVID-19 and those who have lost loved ones on that way, is an example, of soil where I was living

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last year when fire came. This is an example of how the burnt ground, without any living matter on it.

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No trees, no plant life. It's cracked. As for those that might have any like skin allergies to families with psoriasis, or dandruff, etc.

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It's interested in how nature can parallel, like the skin of the earth and the skin of our human.

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I wanna go a little personal, not too much. But again, this is an image of my mom, like one of the last memories I have with her before she got cancer.

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And then on the right a little bit of the ancestral line.

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It's something that I feel is really important for all of us to understand where we come from.

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As a minority. On my grandma's side, she laughed from the Chinese Revolution in the 1940's and fifties during that civil war so there's a lot of like stay and struggle and a scarcity mindset that plays out because I think for us to know where we are

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right now. And what we struggle with knowing our childhood traumas, but also our ancestral traumas, is really important to look at.

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So I just wanna expand a little bit through them. Because where mindfulness and meditation has helped me the last 13 years of my life is that grown up once you have a mom removed for those of you who come from a little bit of a broken family home you're kind of really definitely

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but right away from 4 years old, like there was no sitting at a table eating together.

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My father worked really hard as a single dad provided for 4 kids, a lot of boxes.

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What used to be the playroom. Everything got boxed up.

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So you go into fight or freeze mode. And I'm not gonna go into the deep psychology, but just for us to understand the brain a bit of how we've been wired and through some of these practices, through meditation and through what my 2 other colleagues will share but,

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just understanding, this is the limbic brain, the way we react.

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You know that reptilian side of us, so that when we get triggered we kind of break down.

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And just to understand what happens there and then on the other side, is our prefrontal cortex.

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The thinking, the problem solving, and whenever we get triggered, which is inevitable, that as much as we keep those of us who, on this healing journey to be a way of how do we regulate?

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How do we come down? How do we come back to our breath, so that no matter what the trauma is from your childhood or throughout your life, pleasure or pain, and that's a human shared experience that there's no denying.

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But the question is through the resiliency, how do we come through as a community to support one another and better ways that are more trauma informed?

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And I would just want to share this practice of what's called "reframing".

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So where I come from. It's been a really long journey, but in a nutshell I've learned especially with the Zen tradition again, that whatever tragedy has hit us in our lives, that there is a way to reframe and it's not to look through a rose colored glasses, we're

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very much again. You know, life happens, but each of us are designed to know what works for us.

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So, for example, for me, like you're studying yoga and meditation there are more about aye, a little more about permaculture department. This has been my journey.

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We're learning again how to work with communities to organize for food aid during disasters, how to bring people together, to celebrate being alive together.

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And that's really important. But again, to also honor some practices that can help each of us.

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And one philosophy that's always tough. There's me, as I studied social sciences in college, will always be massive hierarchy of me.

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So again, on the basic level of knowing what we need to survive the physiological that everyone knows about a lot of human justice issues around there.

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But for many of us attending a spot or pain point can always be the greatest things like love and belonging self-esteem, etc., because sometimes, like the physical, is something that's always emphasize.

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But there's that relational component. Then I wanna really highlight to.

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That's the community comes in, and in all of my studies and all of my work, that where there is conflict on the outside there's also contact happening on the inside.

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So questions of how to address things like that, you know, when you look at Yoga, or any religion that you choose.

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Yes, self actualization is important but there's one practice that always stuck with me, which is called like it's an engaged spirituality that we don't just said on a cushion to meditate.

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But how do we go out into the world without different skill, sets to bring peace, but as many of us know who in the activism area it's really easy to burn ourselves out, and that's where the maintenance comes in.

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Of what do I need in this moment? How do I pause?

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How do I take a breath? And what are these simple, very simple, practical tools that I can take with me?

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So just wanted to share some techniques. 

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So as a teenager, some things very basic that helps me a lot where Yoga meditation, journal and dancing run in volunteer and church during that season of my life but it's interesting to see our own evolution of rest or these semantic practices or community based support that comes in and in my twenties

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I got really into like education and correct. But in the midst of that, things like therapy, if that works for you, for me, it's always been for his hikes and sea baths, having friendships.

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You can see some things that stayed the same like yoga meditation, journaling.

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Sleep became more of a priority. Nourishment, meals and extravagance, agriculture and gardening and pottery.

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So again, working with my hands, being outside, and in my thirties, it's interesting to see, as we go down this journey of trying to find that balance, so you can see the things that have stayed the same with me that I believe in but who knew that now more than ever things like massages would matter.

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Walking with my dogs, writing about boundaries, that's been a big one.

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How to say no. Things like acupuncture. Next slide, that is Maslow's hierarchy of needs, of the security on a very basic level. 

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And I just share all of that as a spiral to also bring it back.

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Now that even in the midst of things they were all humans.

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So having something like a favorite choice that can be really comforted.

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And yes, I'm gonna advocate. That is a form of maintenance.

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As well to know that if you've had a really hard day, what is something right away that might bring a little bit more comforts to bring us back?

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Well, in addition, my favorite practice definitely this season of my life would be the sacred pause.

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So what I would have just shared with you my mindfulness, Bell.

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That's sounds like this.

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Super simple. But it's something that sends off a message to stock no matter what I'm doing.

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That we have to find the time to rest, so camouflage just like the Emperor.

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But aside, you know, it's a tune in you know. It's a hide away from the world to return to our body and our breath before we return into the world into collective spaces.

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And I have a lot of gratitude for you.

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But if there was one thing I want us to take away, especially coming from a background of to be driven a lot to community organizing, and also being guilty of burnout and a lot of the that unless we rest.

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And that's there will never be time to do any of these other things.

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So I feel like just like the butterfly again.

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Go into your cocoon when you need to come out when it needs to be, and it's only then, when we're able to clean our mind by returning to the breath that we can see the world in a brand new way through the different senses so from my heart to yours thank you.

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Thank you so so much. That was really beautiful. I'm like, in the midst of a like wow, just like scratching notes over here.

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Thank you so much for sharing. If you have questions for Rheanna, please feel free to put them into the chat.

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We are gonna transition over to Ashley next, I'm going to unpin and re-PIN.

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And yeah, thank you so so much. Ashley onto you, I'm going to remove spotlight and add the spotlight to you, Ashley, and yes, questions in the chat.

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We're here for it all. I'm really excited to. Yeah. Continue on with this event over to.

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Thanks, Liliana. Can you hear me? Okay, okay, I'm going to share my screen.

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Okay? And can you see my screen? Okay, that's not the first slide.

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That's the first slide. Everybody can see it. Okay, great.

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Let me just rearrange my screens here.

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Okay. Thanks for inviting me to this Liliana, and thanks, Rheanna and Sarah for what you've shared, and are about to share, and thanks everybody for being here.

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My name is Ashley Hartman Annis. I use they and she and they pronouns, I'm located in what's now called Madison, Wisconsin.

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Ho! Chunk! Land! And I'm gonna chat a little bit about the work that I do.

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So yeah, there's a handful of offerings that I have available for my community.

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And I, I'm going to talk a little bit about some of the specifics in just a second.

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And I think a lot of these things really overlap and feed each other and nourish each other, and inform each other. Primarily I'm a full spectrum birth worker, which means that I support families through pregnancy births labor and also miscarriage abortion, fertility

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challenges, pregnancy, loss, postpartum, basically the full spectrum of pregnancy outcomes.

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And in addition to that, I also do a lot of teaching and educating on fertility and reproduction with a special sort of spotlight on gender inclusive fertility and reproductive work, and also trauma, informed which to me is really important and I think really

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connects into this conversation, of maintaining oneself, because so many of us, especially with uteruses.

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But I assume other places as well. We don't receive comprehensive, gender, inclusive, informed consent

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based sex education growing up, and I think to be like fully embodied, to be fully realized as a human, that that's like a really important piece sort of wherever you fall on the sexuality spectrum or gender spectrum.

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It's really important to have that information regardless how you're using it or how that shows up in your life.

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And so, yeah, so that's a big part of maintaining myself and my community.

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I'm also a Zine maker, and so I'm for those of you who aren't familiar with Zines.

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Their self-published books, or booklets, and often those are about fertility and reproduction, and bodies but it's a really accessible way to get little bites of information into a lot of hands and Zines do a lot of other things as well but that's the way that

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I use that medium and I'm also a somatic practitioner. It's the tool that I'm working with primarily right now is TRE, and that's what I'm going to talk the most about in just a second.

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But that's sort of the big picture of of what I do.

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So when I sat down with this prompt and with this event that Liliana invited me to, I sort of sat with this question of like, What are what are the tools that I use to better understand myself and my body?

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And how can I share some of that information in safe, accessible, generative, trauma-informed ways with you all today and also wanting to acknowledge, as Liliana has said, and everybody else has said and will say in in today's event in order to show up authentically

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as myself, in my communities, in in my relationships. It's also really important to recognize that self-care is also community care and community care is self-care and actually, as I was sort of prepping for this event, there was a really great newsletter that got sent out by the @wokescientist on instagram I

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don't know if y'all follow them, but she has this post in this newsletter that just went out last week, and basically that's the whole premise of of what she wrote about that all care is community care.

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There's no form of care that is truly self-care.

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And then she has this practice, which I really appreciated, and have sort of been reflecting on in the past days, and I'll just read like just a just a snippet from this. But think of something you categorize as self-care.

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What are all the factors and pieces that enable that action that extend beyond you as an individual?

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I firmly believe that there is no complete act of care that is solely created or enabled by the self, and so thinking of the waste, that the land nourishes us, thinking of ways that our community nourishes us, thinking of the food, I mean even something as simple as like well a bath.

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is self-care. Where did that water come from? Right?

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So that has been sort of a shift for me thinking about self-care just in this past week, and I wanted to offer that framework as we think about the these tools both that I'm gonna share, and also that we're all sort of sharing together.

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So if you all don't follow the @wokescientist, I highly recommend.

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Her work is great.

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So when I think about the tools that are self-care for me, and the tools that I offer to my community the term body literacy is what sort of encompasses all of them, and and for some people this is a familiar term for other people.

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It's new, but body literacy is not a term that I made up.

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I first heard it actually from Laura Brydon, who's a naturopath in...

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I think Australia and she sort of like coined the term.

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But then, years later, found out that there was a health clinic in India that had been using the term since the early 2 thousands.

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And so in somewhat, it seems like, unless she's lying which I hope she's not.

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But it's seems like the term sort of like sprang up in different places, sort of around.

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Maybe the same like different people had sort of thought of this, separate from each other.

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But people are starting to kind of, yeah, think about maybe what this means and what this could be.

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It's awesome if you Google body Literacy, what's probably going to come up is a lot of fertility reproduction, sorts of blogs and books and resources.

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But it's not just about fertility. It's not just about reproduction.

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My definition would be practice, or the awareness of information that's already present in our body.

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So we're not adding anything this isn't like a tip, or a trick or tool, or a technique, it's what's already there.

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And and we're learning how to read that information, how to be aware of that information, how to see it, how to feel it.

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And I think body literacy is also really tightly connected to consent practices.

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I think the more information we have from our body about around what we want, what we don't want, how to say, no but also how to say yes.

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The more information we have, the better we're able to consent or not consent to something right.

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I also think it's important to note that body literacy is about observing what is actually present, and not what we should see or what we want to see, or what we think should be there, and that can be really hard.

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I think, of course, it makes sense for us to have expectations, but also wants and dreams and hopes for things to be, and yeah, I think body literacy is about being honest about what's actually present, and maybe wanting something different.

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That's okay. But being honest about what's there and then, like, I said, it's often connected to reproductive health and fertility.

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But I think it's also about the nervous system.

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What feels good to eat, what kind of touch or intimacy is desired?

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How many spoons one has on any given day. So I really think it's anything that has to do with being in a body.

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I think we can have some body literacy around, and I've linked some some things here.

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If you want to dive more into body literacy. So like, I said, I think it can be a lot of different things.

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And the 2 specific body literature practices that I'm offering include fertility awareness and menstrual cycle charting.

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And TRE, which stands for Tension and Trauma Release exercises.

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I could talk for many hours on either of these alone, so I wanted to.

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We're gonna zoom in on TRE in just a second, and that's kind of gonna be like the meat of this.

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But just to kind of be able to compare and contrast a little bit like what can body literacy look like?

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It can look a lot of different ways. So here's 2 that you can start to play with if you're interested, basically, fertility awareness, the real, quick, short version is that people who have uterus can track fertility biomarkers and their hormones to understand when or if they're

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ovulating when pregnancy can occur, and when it can't, the cycle parameters are normal, whatever that means to you.

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That's a whole other conversation, and help people understand what's normal for them.

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And when things are maybe shifting or changing, and why this is so important to me is because again, the basics of menstrual cycle education are not taught in most sex education settings.

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This isn't rocket science, and yet we kind of treat it like the menstrual cycle is such a mystery that we really shouldn't even touch it, and we should leave it to the authorities.

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The doctors, the people who know these things we don't deserve to have this information about our body, and we couldn't understand it even if we wanted to.

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That's sort of sometimes the unspoken vibe around menstrual cycles and understanding the body in this way.

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And so for me, fertility, awareness, and cycle charting is really a way to take back that power and that information, and to be able to say, This is my body.

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I'm able to understand what's going on. And here are the tools that I can use to really help me.

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See to really help me see if I'm ovulating to see if I'm fertile to see what my options are around Birth control, abortion, pregnancy.

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And that's really powerful in especially in the world that we're in right now with the laws and the restrictions to access that we have, especially in the Us.

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So like I said, that's a whole other thing. There's so much to say about that that I'm leaving out right now, and I wanna move us into, because that's we're gonna play a little bit with that today.

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And so I want to give you just a quick intro, basically.

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And I also want to say Liliana, time wise, what's my?

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When should I be done?

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You're doing great time wise, let's say like 8 to 10 more minutes.

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Perfect. Yup, that's great. So all mammals have the ability to shake or tremor as a way to process and integrate stressful experiences and to release stress.

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And when I say this, sometimes people are like, I, what really?

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And then we kind of sit with it for a second, and what it what happens happens is that as people start to kind of think back and their experiences, most people can think of a time where their body.

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Got shaky, and some of the more common ones are like after a car accident, even if it was just a little fender.

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Bender. Maybe you got out of the car and you were a little shaky, and you looked at the car and you tried to figure out what had happened.

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Often after people give birth, they're shaking.

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That happens. That's usually one that across the board people are like, Oh, yeah, after after I gave birth, my body was super shaky, and there was no stopping it.

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Sometimes before, like a big speech or a big presentation that you're giving at 2 Pm.

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For the Maintainers. Your body gets a little shaky because the nerves right, or if you know, if you were talking to a boss or an authority figure, sometimes after people come out of anesthesia after a surgery, they can be really shaky or if

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you've never experienced that in your own body. Maybe you've seen your dog run under the bed and shake during thunderstorm or fireworks.

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So there, if if we sort of spend a little bit of time with it, usually people can sort of come up with like, Oh, yeah, I think I've seen that.

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Or I felt that I've seen somebody else do that.

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And it's really common. And it's really normal.

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And it's it's a built-in tool that we have in our bodies.

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The thing is, most people suppress that because we don't want to look stupid, we don't want to look scared we don't want to look silly.

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We don't want to look weak, so we clamp it down.

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We tighten our muscles, we tighten our body, we pull ourselves in, we try and keep it together.

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We want to be in control right? When in actuality, that movement is a really wise tool, that our bodies have to help process and integrate and move things through.

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So I want to show at least part of this Youtube video what happened.

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There's there's no death here. So I want to give that.

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What happens is that this cheetah catches this impala and the impala prior to being caught.

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I'm assuming was probably in some sort of fight-or-flight mode, as like Rheanna has talking about earlier, trying to get away right like really energized.

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Its pupils are probably dilated, its heart was probably beating fast.

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It had all of this energy to try and get out of there to save itself.

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That's also a wise response. The impala gets caught by the cheetah, and what does it do?

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It goes into a freeze, and so you'll see when we watch this video, it looks like it's dead.

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It's not, but it's wise body shuts down all the nonessential things, and also is probably giving lots of hormones that would help with the inevitable pain of being ripped to shreds, and we see other animals do this too, right like if they think they're gonna die.

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They just conk out so that they don't have to experience the trauma of death.

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Super wise. That's really smart. Humans do this, too.

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If we think we're going to die, we dissociate right?

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We leave our body. We don't want to deal with this thing that's happening.

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What happens, though, is that we just had all this really intense energy, this, get up and get out energy.

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And now we've gone into a freeze. And so what happens here is that the impala gets away.

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The cheetah gets distracted, something happens, and how do we transition from really intense energy to freeze back into life, back into our community, back into feeling safe?

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What this wise, beautiful, Empala does is it shakes, and you'll see.

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So I'm gonna play this, maybe I'm gonna play this.

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Okay. And I'll probably click around a little bit. But can you all see this?

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There's no sound, so there's nothing to hear.

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Okay. So here we are caught by the cheetah. It's gonna rip this creature to shreds.

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But it's distracted, like something's happening.

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And then we see. Oh, who's that? Here comes a hyena. I think that's a hyena.

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Okay, so that she was like, well, maybe it's maybe this isn't gonna be lunchtime here.

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Okay. I'm just gonna jump ahead a little bit because there's a lot of like back and forth we don't need to.

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We don't need to see all the interactions here.

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I think there's also some sort of monkey that comes into.

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And so that's okay. So the cheat is going to like, try and pull this creature with it and then realize it's like, Nope, actually, that's not gonna happen.

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I'm just gonna get out of here. And then if we cut back to this here, it is totally frozen.

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Thank you. And I was gonna die.

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Thank you can barely even see the breath moving. It's so shallow here.

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And what eventually happens is that it starts to breathe a little deeper.

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Can you see here? It's systems are kinda coming back online, as it realizes that maybe the coast is clear.

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Okay. And then we're gonna jump.

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To the good part here. So it does that for a while, like a couple minutes.

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It just lays there and breathes, and then it starts to do this shaky business.

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And this is how it's discharging all of that intensity and you can see even this little mouth.

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This little tongue is going too.

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And it does that for a while, and then eventually.

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It's gonna get up.

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And he runs away like nothing even happened like it wasn't just about to die.

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Okay. So the point, then, of this practice is to do just that to sort of initiate tremors with our human animal bodies as a way to self-regulate as a way to release as a way to let go of things.

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And it doesn't necessarily have to be right after the hard thing that happened.

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We can use this practice days, weeks, months, years after hard things have happened.

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Our bodies are store. This information. It stores the stress it stores these stories right?

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And we can use something like TRE or other semantic practices to help see what's there, and to help move it.

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Out where it needs to go. So these are just the goals of of TRE in general to get to know this tremor, mechanism and shaking to be comfortable with it, to understand how to self-regulate, and this is a theme that has come up a couple times today it sounds like part of te is knowing how to take

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breaks, is knowing how to rest, is knowing when to stop and to know when's enough.

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Right cuz so often in our lives. We just go go, go, push, push, push, which is very capitalistic, very patriarchal, very colonialist ways of being.

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And so this is one way to sort of learn how to rest, how to take care how to maintain ourselves in this way.

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And then this is just a quote from the person who kind of founded TRE. He didn't invent the shakes.

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It's something our bodies know how to do. But he did a lot of work around it and studying it. And I love this.

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We're genetically encoded to know that we will experience trauma in life, and that we're able to endure trauma, and that we can recover from it.

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If that was an possible we would have died as a species trauma is actually part of our evolutionary process.

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We know how to heal. Sometimes we just need some extra tools and extra support and communities.

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So what I'd like to do is the first exercise in the TRE practice.

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If you're willing and we'll just spend like maybe a minute or 2 doing this.

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But if folks want to stand unlike you, to stand.

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Maybe take a breath.

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Maybe feel your feet on the ground. I'm gonna even take my slippers off because I wanna really want to feel my feet.

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And now maybe spend just a moment kind of looking around the space that you're in, just really gently.

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Kind of let your eyes fall wherever they fall.

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And while you do that, maybe just play a little bit with how the weights distributed on your feet.

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Just kind of feeling. Yeah, the different parts of the feeds.

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Try not to lock your knees, have a little gentle bend in your knees.

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And if, while you're doing this, you find yourself taking a big breath sign, maybe a yawn comes up.

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Maybe even like a cough, or a grunt, or a ground.

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Let yourself do that. That is good nervous system regulations.

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And try and suppress it.

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And the reason why we start here in a Tr practice is because this act of kind of looking around the room that's our nervous system.

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Settle a little bit, and maybe we're able to say to ourselves, Hey, actually, there are no threats in this space that I'm in right now, and if there are, we should attend to that we should definitely deal with the threat first but if there isn't, can we settle a little can we feel our

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body.

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And I also want to acknowledge that there are a lot of threats in the world that are ongoing, depending of the color of your skin or your sexual orientation, or where you live right?

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There are ambient threats. So I don't want to diminish that.

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But I also want to invite you to see if there's safety or beauty or connection that you have access to.

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In this moment, too!

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And as you do this, maybe you just kind of tune in to your nervous system.

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Do you feel a little more settled? Does this practice actually kind of amp you up?

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Do you feel a little disconnected? Do you feel a little more present?

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There's no right or wrong answer here. It's just all information.

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It's just all noticing.

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And what's cool about this is, you can do this anywhere, anytime, and so I'll end with just given everything a good shake. Shake your arms, legs.

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And then we can make our way back to our screens.

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Here!

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So that's just one of the exercises. And what a session would look like.

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And I think it stands alone as a really useful practice.

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So I know. Liliana said. There will be a document that will be sent out with links and more information.

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If folks want more information on any of these practices, all have some things in there.

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But that's yeah. That's what I have to share for today.

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Thanks! So much for for holding.

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Thank you so much, Ashley. It felt, oh, so good to feel into my mind and breath, and now into my body.

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It feels. Yeah, what a special special afternoon we're all having.

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I wanna also just put a plug that I receive.

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Ashley's Zines. And it really is just the best little bite size piece of information.

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And I feel like I know that Sarah is also a Zine-Maker, and so I'm going to pass the next baton off to them, and I will do the spotlight thing again.

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But again, if you have questions, or thoughts, or ideas that are coming up for different maintenance practices or questions that you have for the practitioner, please feel free to put them into the chat, and after Sarah shares, we will kind of open up a little bit of a discussion depending on how much time, but

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that we're really we're excited to be an exploration of this altogether.

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So thanks again, Ashley, and onto you, Sarah.

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Hi! Everyone. Please let me know my audio ever glitches, or if you can't see the permutation at all.

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Hello! My name is Sarah. How am I? And now, you see, they pronouns, and I'm calling in from unceded land.

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Also known as Santa Fe, New Mexico, and I will share my screen.

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So thank you. First of all for inviting me and for the really insightful shares Ashley and Rheanna.

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I really appreciate being in conversation about these things that I feel like we can't talk enough about like we should be having more and more of these conversations and they should be flooding the airwaves.

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So before diving back into the conversation, I already thought it would be nice to share a little bit about my recent background, and how I was introduced to the Maintainers.

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So in 2021 I was a fellow, and back then I started working with clay and urban materials here in New Mexico.

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A lot of it was through renovating older buildings, and it represented a reconnection to urban materials and every connection to ancestral technologies.

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A lot of these buildings here actually remind me of the adobe back where I was born and raised in Kuwait.

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So it was just like this, very serendipitous reconnection through earth and through land so far away somewhere I come from, and the project that I ended up developing had to do with this.

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Idea of home sovereignty, and I'll just read a little bit about it.

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The project centered around the idea of home sovereignty which reflects to community self-determination related to home and belonging the work is contextualized within integrated liberation.

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Efforts of land, food, medicine, housing, and cultural sovereignty, as well.

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Intersectional healing and kinship beyond borders, and in this particular project it was done through the framework, a building which is a natural building.

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Material and maintenance process that have embodied relational healing.

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Here in New Mexico, and globally, and you can read the report.

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The Maintainer's website. And that really helped me sort of solidify a studio practice.

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That I'm currently building out, and that probably focuses on these 5 seeds or pillars, build repair, nourish, storytelling, and learning.

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And so the build part is really about building sanctuary and actually material vessels for living as well as other kinds of material culture.

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Nourishment involves food as well as spiritual nourishment, and plant medicine, and then the repair part.

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I view as a larger and long term goal, and it has to do with reparations and life ways back.

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And then the story and learn is more of what I'm doing now.

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Of collecting our kind of store. Important story stories around these things and sharing them, and also providing educational opportunities whether it's through a workshop like this or through a community with, etc.

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Yeah, I thought it'd be fun to share a little bit about like the umbrella and context of of where I'm coming in from.

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And then I'll just dive back into the conversation.

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So I really wanted to frame this. And we can contextualize maintenance and the conversation of the series of talks that the Maintainer is hosting which has to do with not only the self but community and movement.

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And I thought of the motivation behind Maintenance within that context would be not as stagnant to be, but as intentional transformation towards more liber liberated and loving relationships and experiences.

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And then to also further look at the self within, that within the context of these conversation, I felt that it was important to talk of the self as oriented towards being very deeply relational.

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So when we call, we can touch into the many relationships that make our existence possible, and like what has been shared, we can realize that we are a ecology onto ourselves.

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Deeply entangled with many being, with elements, conditions, and cultural ways of being.

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And we can also think of our many lineages, whether that's familial or spiritual languages, or even our activists.

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Community lineages. We're all a part of that stream.

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And so, why is this important? Why is this framing important and getting specific like that about what I'm viewing self and maintenance as I think that when we think of the self as an aggregate of all these non self elements, we can begin to cultivate

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self, reverence and compassion and generosity that radiates outward, and with that type of rootedness and intimacy we can embody the connected pathways.

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We have to attend to ourselves and our community.

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And like what we we all have been referencing is that there are very real barriers to this type of connection.

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We'll and difficult challenges that we face. And these this get.

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This connection is fragmented on a level that is constant.

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And systemic, and it is interrupts our ability to heal and move towards liberation and liberation is actually about becoming aware of and having reverence for our inherent relationality.

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It's not about, oh, a type of rugged individualist type of liberation.

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And so, how do we transform and abolish some of these barriers?

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We can't really talk about self maintenance without talking about this fragmentation on many levels and acknowledging it on the systemic, the communal with the intergenerational, interpersonal, and even within oneself, in other words, maintaining this ecology, of self

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community and movement, I believe, involved the courage to face rupture and conflict, especially the conflict that exist within ourselves, and then, moving from there outward to the conflict that exists outside of ourselves.

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And that courage, and that willingness to move with that strength is a continual process and choice, and one way self-compassion is spring.

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Strengthen. This is one way. It can be strengthen, and that cultivates.

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I type of.

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Courage that has the capacity to interrupt harm on many levels.

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So all this to say, is self maintenance is really important.

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It's not about self-indulgence.

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It's very integral in the work of collective transformation.

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And one of my favorite quote, that alludes to this.

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It is by Grace Lee Boggs to make a revolution.

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People must not only struggle against existing institutions, they must make a philosophical spiritual lead and become more human beings. In order to change transform the world, they must change, transform themselves.

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I'm just gonna check the time. So jumping into practice, I wanted to introduce 2, which has to do with deep listening, and the next one is about storytelling.

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And this one is simple, but very difficult to do, and I know for me.

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When I started to consciously introduce this into my life, I found that when I offer this people, and when it is reciprocated, that simple act of our present, our loving presence can be deeply transformative.

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So one way to think about it is listening from a place of curiosity and understanding, so, not necessarily listening to respond.

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But to really understand when something was shared with us.

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And this can also be applied to ourselves. But listening to the internal dialogue or what's coming up even somatically, without necessarily having to decipher it.

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But just being open. So receiving the information without jumping to the conclusion, and another way to practice deep listening, especially an interpersonal level, is to try to notice the inner commentators who may agree, disagree, judge, or feel the urge to offer advice or something and this is really useful

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to become aware of. And they're not really judge these things, but just to become aware of them.

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And let them go, become aware of them, and let them go, become kind of that cycle deep, listening to your own internal dialogue in response to someone else.

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And that's a way to really be there without imposing anything.

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And so I invite you to practice. This can be brought into.

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Digital meeting Zoom Meetings like this, or conversations that.

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You'll have in person. It's really a powerful tool.

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When we consciously introduce this into our lives.

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And.

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The next practice has to do with storytelling, and thought it would be fun to read a little from a draft, being that hopefully you come into a book, and it has a lot of practices self-reflection.

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But really geared towards folks that want to collaborate and create creative ecosystem.

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So I'll just start.

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And read some of the excerpts.

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We remember ourselves before we are born. We are always becoming. We are growing together.

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We know where we return. There is a rhythm to retreating internally, self reflecting and engaging externally with the world.

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This rhythmic balance is crucial to becoming community to being in community centered in integrity.

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Our bodies, sensations, and feelings, with to us of our needs, desires, and our untended wound.

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Learning to listen to the language of body, heart, and soul is the greatest self love that radiates outward to our community.

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Caring for her body is caring for the earth, caring for the earth is caring for our body.

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So says a ritual, is the ceremony in which we call in spirit to be the driving force.

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The overseer of our activity. It is a way for us to find our way to homeless things, self acceptance and acceptance above ritual allows us to connect with the self, the community, and then, after the actual forces around those which will help us remove blocks between us and our truth variable end quote

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so in this sense, ritual is liberation, work, remember, embodiment is liberation with ritual speaks to pre-bal language, invoking a remembrance of the grace that field of the grace that danced with mystery and a timeless cycles of the grace that

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liberates opening up portals of the gotten Choices.

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And so the what kind of goes into a different team question.

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So the first one is circles of self, and there's another one around circles of community, and then the third is alchemy and collaboration, and the very last one is being the future ancestor.

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And this is one of the last things I'll share.

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But I thought it would be.

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Interesting to kind of zoom out and talk about self maintenance in terms of the stories that we tell ourselves, and becoming aware of that those stories, and even the stories that are imposed on us are the stories that are told to us and that can be a very powerful transformative practice so some of the questions include what would the

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full, truthful expression of yourself, look like beyond societal standards or conditioning.

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What are your core values? What do you wish to cultivate within yourself?

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Community world, and then another one is, why is your truthful expression informed by your values and portions?

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How would it affect you? Other society body, think at multiple scale, and I think an interesting thing to add to this is like, what would you have to give up?

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Because for me I didn't realize that often the truth will expression that I want to marge into requires me.

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You give up something, and there might be fear around that, and so we can become into awareness of that.

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And just through that simple awareness it transforms it. Last week.

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How can you re-center on and embody what?

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What came up in the answering moment of the first 3 questions.

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How can you do that? Daily? I think, first step simple daily action, processing, ritual.

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And so one technique to reflect on this that I find really helpful is 3 writing.

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So setting it a time aside for yourself to just either type or pen on paper, allow yourself to write whatever comes up without censoring yourself forever.

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How long you have time. Yeah, I wanted to share that practice.

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And and on a also. From this little zoom.

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It goes, I pray with, I pray that we are guided.

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Receiving and present to our sole family, home community partners, places that give us permission and blessing to be into nourishing ourselves each other.

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I pray with, I pray. We come into a deeper relationship with that places in ourselves and on the earth that allow us to create more possibility, that welcome us in a sustained and balanced devotion to creating an abundance that overclows.

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I pray with, I pray, remain on the path of tending each other's growth, feeling gratitude, reciprocity, joy, freedom, we affirm each other's ancestral wisdom and calling.

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We affirm the sacredness of our descendants, we affirm our life.

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That cycles in between from the time we are paid for in the whispered ritual of an animal to buried.

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See to. With clear hearts, with clear intentions protected, we continue.

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So that's it. Thank you for listening.

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Thank you so much, Sarah. I'm feeling just really.

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In awe of how the 3 of you each brought together connection of the self kind of then into the larger world or community, and for the last 5 min I just wanted to take a moment-- I'm gonna Spotlight

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Each of you for this-- Yeah, just opening it up to all of us here feel free to write into the chat or to unmute yourself if you feel like sharing any reflections.

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If the 3 of you have reflections on listening to it, one another said around self maintenance, and what it means to maintain oneself.

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This is just a moment to pause and be reflective together.

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Thank you so much again.

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And I guess to start it off. Not that we don't want to just also sit in silence.

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I think that is really important. And I think that, yeah, I'm feeling really reminded Rheanna,

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Of the sacred pause, but I'm wondering a question for each of you is, how do you hold self maintenance in your day to day life like?

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How do you say no to other things, so that you can say yes to maintaining yourself that you can show up for yourself community and movement.

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The larger vision that we're holding.

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Alright, I think I didn't really go deep into any thing I brought up.

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But one thing that I think is so important is ceremony, ritual, any thing that helps we connect on a daily basis to myself and to like what was very badly mentioned.

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All the parts of me that are sip, use by love from, not myself.

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My community assign water. I could talk for days. It's actually really moving to contemplate on that as a form of not as a form of traditional meditation, but as a a sort of meditation, is to really sit and.

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Be in gratitude for all those being the carrier, and that we carry simultaneously and.

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I think when I touch into that I'm able to become more aware of my true self and move with more integrity.

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And that really helps me. Thank God. Okay, this is not where I want to put my energy into spending this finite time in this form that I have left, and.

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Yeah, it's being with clarity in that way, I think, touching that clarity through ceremony and ritual.

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And I can't really say what that's going to look like, for anyone is so important on a daily and that's that could be as simple as working with an praying.

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Things like that. I think the spiritual element of of movement and political change has been really distorted throughout history.

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But if we can start to heal that, there's a lot of transformation and resource there.

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Sarah! Oh, sorry! Rheanna and Ashley do either of you have.

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Thank you for sharing, and Rheanna... Ashley.

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If you have any thoughts on just how to like, make this space for self maintenance.

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Any thoughts like, how how can we begin to like hold the space for ourselves?

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Yeah, I think the first thing that came to mind with that question, how do you make space for self-maintance in your day-to-day life?

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Imperfectly guess what came up for me. It's yeah.

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It's a practice. It's like an ongoing practice, and I don't do it perfect all the time.

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And those moments where I feel like maybe I didn't do that the way I wanted to.

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That's also information.

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So, yeah, as a perfectionist, it's been a good practice to be able to say I'm never gonna get this a 100%.

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Probably this is gonna be an ongoing, fluid, flexible thing.

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And I'm gonna do my best and ask for support when I need it, and forgive myself when I don't do it.

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Maybe the way that I wanted to, or that all my parts wanted to.

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So yeah, imperfectly is how I do it.

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Well, thank you so much, drill. If you feel like sharing, we'd love to hear.

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Yeah, and please, audience, feel free to add your questions or email email us later, that we can kind of be in touch in the virtual space.

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I'm really really grateful for all of you coming, and for just holding this space for self maintenance, as as said, holding holding these questions is something that we're practicing.

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And so it feels, yeah, here we are practicing, holding, holding this together.

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If you're interested in coming to the maintaining community event.

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Here's the kind of bare bones Eventbrite that we have.

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But everyone that signed up for this event is gonna receive a takeaway document with the resources and different pools of techniques and research and practices that have been spoken about today along with others that we've sourced together in this chat.

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But also that we're sourcing on the backend and from the Maintainers.

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We're so so grateful to have you here today, and to be a part of this network and if you're interested in staying connected, you can sign up for our newsletter and listserv and follow us on social media where you will have a lot of access to these other conversations and the materials as

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well, so thank you again. So much for coming. Thank you, Sarah Rheanna and Ashley.

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And yeah, hope you have a restful weekend. If you have weekend.

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Thank you. Okay.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you.

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Okay.

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Thank you very much. It was really good.

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Thanks, Nice. Bye.