The Courage Song aka The Diarrhea Song for when you have to do something hard. Feel free to send me all the covers.
I try not to ever become too hard with certainty. I have to leave room for life to always reach me.
To honor someone is not only to study them at a distance, but to move more like they’ve shown you it was possible to move. To move like MLK Jr. is to call for an end to genoc*de. He knew that unspeakable atrocity was the hidden face of increased militarization.
To honor someone is not only to study them at a distance, but to move more like they’ve shown you it was possible to move. To move like MLK Jr. is to call for an end to genoc*de. He knew that unspeakable atrocity was the hidden face of increased militarization.
If we believed in change, we might become vulnerable to self-reflection. We might find accountability much easier and forgiveness closer. We might build movements that disturb the comfort of this reality and change the world.
If we believed in change, we might become vulnerable to self-reflection. We might find accountability much easier and forgiveness closer. We might build movements that disturb the comfort of this reality and change the world.
Trauma begets trauma. What we are seeing is the creation of trauma that will last long after our lives. Trauma that intends to — and is intended to — spread across generations, across land and through families, invading moments of intimacy, dissolving connection in perpetuity. What we are seeing is how trauma, when offered domination rather than safety or reckoning, collective witnessing or process, will brutally destroy life in the false and confused pursuit of that safety. We will continue reproducing it until we understand this. Nothing ever really goes away.
I hear you words and I feel your affirmations. I’m deeply grateful. Thank you so much.
I’ve always wanted to learn horseback riding but have never made the time. Then my friend Denise met our neighbor down the road, Nat, who brings Cookie over twice a week for lessons. Honestly the highlight of my week right now.
First guest episode of this third season I got to speak with the brilliant and beautifully expansive @alokvmenon. If today you’re contemplating the contradictions of celebrating freedom when so many are unfree, I hope this episode is a meditation on real freedom and invitation to practice. Repost from @findingourwaypodcast • We are honored to have writer, performer, and public speaker @alokvmenon join us for our first guest episode this season. ALOK and Prentis connect on their mutual Texan roots, the power of practicing self-forgiveness and compassion, and how friendship is the answer to most of the existential questions in the world. Listen to the episode – Continual Becoming out now on all the podcast platforms. Let us know your thoughts! [Image Descriptions] ALOK wears a white shirt and stares over their left shoulder against a red background with blue and orange overlapping circles. In white writing it says “ALOK S3 Episode 2.” There is a white Finding Our Way logo in the bottom corner. #podcasthost #applepodcast #podcasting #spotifypodcast #findingourwaypodcast #prentishemphill #blackpodcasts #embodiment #alokvmenon
We resting over here.
I didn’t know what this little box was a few months ago but it’s now become very important to me. It says that I’m writing a book and that book is going to be published by @randomhouse with the support of @jamiaawilson and @benbgreenberg. It represents many YEARS of trying and giving up, getting more truthful, prayer, and more importantly, ridiculous amounts of support I didn’t think I deserved. There’s a really long list of people to thank for even getting this far (I still gotta finish the book!). Just know the acknowledgements will be thick. I know now deeply that you never really do anything alone, we grow in love. Anyway, Spring 2024.
Just got home from teaching @the.embodiment.institute’s first in person somatics retreat ever for Black TGNCI community in the marshlands outside of Savannah. And baby, it was glorious, healing, love filled, overflowing with magic, and Beyoncé references. Thank you to my co-teachers @ryzn05 and @misstonimichelle. We did it! And to @comfreyfilms for all the brilliant documentation y’all are about to see.
Praying for every woman to be free, free especially from the violence of occupation and exploitation, free from the daily psychic burdens of people who don’t know freedom comes with responsibility and care.
What does it take to heal? How do we bring healing into the center of everything we do? I think the things that we might build and create would drastically change, and I’m excited for a world that is holding that question as a really valuable one.
This morning’s adventure of trying to get this lunging snake out of the chicken coop. Laughter courtesy of the peanut gallery.
Head over to @UncleBobbies to pre-order a signed copy of my book, “WHAT IT TAKES TO HEAL: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World” 📖🖊️
In conversation with Dr. Jennifer Mullan of @decolonizingtherapy talking about therapy, freeing our emotions, and the kind of collective care we need right now. Her book, Decolonizing Therapy is an important read.
Grateful always for the wisdom and the love centered way @jamaicaosorio reveals what it is that Hawai’i has to teach the world about decolonization and also about true, liberated intimacy. Please check out this week’s episode of @findingourwaypodcast . It’s a beautiful offering. Repost from @findingourwaypodcast • Hau’oli Lā Ho’iho’i Ea – celebrating the restoration of Hawaiian sovereignty, past and future with Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio. @jamaicaosorio is a Kanaka Maoli wahine artist, activist, scholar and storyteller joins us for episode four! In this episode Jamaica shares her experience as a kiaʻi, a protector of land and water and helps us understand how aloha ‘āina is a powerful source of learning, love and relationship. We also explore the tenacious power of Hawai’i and how it exists outside of colonial projections. You can listen to this profound conversation on Apple and Spotify. Follow Jamaica’s work @oahuwaterprotectors / @oahuwp @protectmaunakea / @puuhuluhulu @morningyouwake and read her book “Remembering our Intimacies: Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀīna, and Ea” [Image description] a black and white photo of Jamaica smiling floats into frame on and orange background with a large red and teal circle. In a teal box with white font it says “ Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio. S3 Episode 4”
I really love talking to @richiereseda. He’s such a skilled and vulnerable teacher because he teaches not just from theory but from experience. This episode we talk accountability, patriarchy, and shame and how we get to the good stuff of living. Repost from @findingourwaypodcast • Episode 3 drops today with music, film, content producer, and founder of @Question.Culture Richie Reseda. @richiereseda In this conversation, Richie helps us explore the pyramid of patriarchy, how to respond to harm within our communities, and the impact of shame on our connections with each other. Listen now on #Applepodcast #Spotify or wherever you catch your podcasts [Image Description] Richie Reseda stands in a pink shirt and cheetah print jacket. He floats into the frame on a green background with a teal and white circle. In an orange box with white font it says “Richie Reseda S3 E3”
A lot of what brings me to embodiment is an understanding of how our attention is the primary product of today and as much as the attention economy wants to know your likes, it wants to shape them into predictable purchasing power. Embodiment then is an opportunity to remember to feel our stuffness. This moment isn’t vacant, it’s full of you, of us, of life. I picked up Jenny’s book in the airport and felt like I was in exactly this conversation with a friend. Let me know what you think of the episode!! Jenny Odell is one of my favorite writers exploring all of this in a really smart and odd ways, Repost from @findingourwaypodcast • Join us for some moss talk, discovering the infinite from within our own space and how to resist the attention economy with Jenny O’dell @jennitaur Jenny Odell is an Oakland-based artist, writer, and birder whose work attempts to shift our perception of the everyday and cultivate endangered forms of attention. A former studio art instructor at Stanford, she is the author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy and is currently at work on a second book. Listen to Jenny on episode 5 out now on #applepodcast #spotify and other major podcast platforms. [Image Description] Jenny Odell slides into frame on a blue background with an orange and red circle behind her. She is wearing glasses and a blue sweater. In white font it says “Jenny Odell. S3 Episode 5”
We dropped an important episode this week of @findingourwaypodcast and it’s on…POWER. That five letter word we sometimes run from, watch others hoard and abuse. It’s the very same power many of us talk about building yet are afraid, at times, to wield. We couldn’t have had a more insightful guest than @chasinggarza to talk about power’s complexities and how necessary it is for us to get into it and good at it. Hope you enjoy it!! ✨ Repost from @findingourwaypodcast • We are honored that the amazing Alicia Garza @chasinggarza joined us this week. In this episode, Alicia breaks down what power is, how we build it, and why we need it in order to build a more equitable society. Alicia is an author, political strategist, organizer, and cheeseburger enthusiast. Alicia founded the Black Futures Lab to make Black communities powerful in politics. She is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, serves as the Strategy & Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and is a co-founder of Supermajority, a new home for women’s activism. She is also the host of @ladydonttakenopod We hope you enjoy listening to her wisdom here. Episode six is out now on #applepodcasts #spotify and other podcast platforms. [Image Description] Alicia Garza slides into frame with a bright pink blazer on. She stands in her dignity against a dark red background with teal and white circles. In white font: “Alicia Garza. S2 Episode 6”
I have been away taking some time off, off the grid but I wanted to come on here and make sure you know that our most recent episode of @findingourwaypodcast features our radiant and brilliant friend @sonyareneetaylor. Sonya has been a friend to us, our first guest, and maybe our most requested repeat guest! In this episode we get into how we really create the future and develop our integrity along the way. Repost from @findingourwaypodcast • Our friend, Sonya Renee Taylor @sonyareneetaylor has returned to grace us with her brilliance in the last guest episode of season 3. Sonya brings her wisdom on integrity, wholeness, and creating the conditions to have our greatest impact in the world. Episode 7 is out now on #applepodcasts #spotify and all the major podcast platforms. [Image Description] Sonya Renee Taylor slides into frame against a light green background with orange and teal circles. In white font it says “Sonya Renee Taylor Season 3 Episode 7.”
There are words in here we need now. Grateful for your voice, @colearthurriley.
