Mindful Inspiration for Life
The Reckoning: Decolonising our minds
And so this process of learning about white privilege and the deep structural biases that privilege white folks, and leaning into the gritty and uncomfortable truths that are uncovered as I learn more and see more, and then the working through how to ‘settle’ this in terms of the actions I take in the world. Well it feels very much like a reckoning to me.
Yet, it’s a reckoning that I feel so passionately about turning towards.
Knowing Who We Are: Tracing my Roots
I had started to feel pretty untethered.
My bones were calling for something that I could really settle into as my own culture and spirituality. I was grieving the brokenness of White Western Imperialism and the disconnection from nature and from wonder and from daily ritual and ceremony.
Yet, as I learned from Australian Aboriginal wisdom keepers, as I sat in Women’s Circles and as I learned about the Drummers, the Storytellers, the Shamans and the Tarot, I could still see where the dots would connect back to a shared way of being.
Who the F#%k am I to take up Space?
Acknowledging the ways that I was enabled to take up space and have a platform, simply due to the body that I was born in, and coming to understand the ways that I perpetuate the colonisation of other cultures within the Wellness space, was mind-blowing.
