Don’t settle for “coping” with life…
I had someone comment on a social media video recently saying they were trying to find good “coping mechanisms” for the moment and my first thought was “Fuck our coping mechanisms. I want to thrive.”
Colonization is so tricky because at some point the oppressing force doesn’t even have to work that hard because we learn to imprison ourselves. I think that is the energy we are inside of when we slip into thinking that we just need to figure out how to “get through” the coming years or how to “cope” with our endless anxiety and depression and despair.
Fuck coping… I am here for our thriving.
Why do you assume that your anxiety or depression or despair is just inevitable?
Why do you assume that you will have to struggle and suffer and shut down to survive?
Why do we assume that we know all of the ways that this thing could play out?
Why do we assume that we are the powerless ones?
This is the work of generations of mental colonization. If you want to dig deeper into this concept you can listen to this episode on Consciousness Artist. You don’t even need to be forcefully contained if you can be convinced that you were never powerful in the first place.
In my realm of work on this planet, I’m not talking about a physical power. I am talking about numinous, psychic, SOUL power (which is what we wake up inside of Radical Healers). There is a reason that in the earliest records of colonization they would always take down the Shamans and the Wisdom-keepers of a community first. That mystical force, and those who stoked it in the masses, was the greatest threat to a dominating power that was trying to take hold.
…because that mystical force, when activated, creates an experience of limitless possibilities, and a relationship to life itself that is indestructible.
And you cannot dominate through fear over a populace who knows that their potential is infinite.
Here is why this is great news for us: as we sit here 500+ years into the oppression of Magic as Birthright, the mainstream dominating culture has all but forgotten that we even have this energetic prowess lying dormant in us, let alone that it can be so practical and powerful.
In an instant, we can wake up a force of wisdom, navigation, and creation that already exists inside of us. We can do it invisibly, as we go about our days. We can create radical internal revolutions that are entirely undetectable until it is too late.
…or we can keep finding new little anxious ticks to serve as “coping mechanisms” in the hope that maybe we can ebb into periods of being slightly-less-miserable.
I am SO tired of folks coming to me who think that their anxiety is a part of their personality… “it’s just who I am”.
I am SO tired of folks coming to me thinking they are just a “depressive kind of person”.
I am SO tired of hearing folks clinging to gradations of suffering and othering as a binky to get them through the long night of existence.
Fuck our coping… we came to thrive, and our power is in asserting that birthright.
As I mentioned earlier this week, The Radical Healers Tasting Room experience is open FOR FREE until March 20th to fill up on practices, resources, and new ways of thinking and seeing that are designed to activate the part of you that knows more is possible.
This is a great way to test the waters for our nine month immersion program, but please take advantage of it regardless of your intentions.
In addition: I lowered my 1:1 session rates this week because I have more bandwidth to do so and I like showing up to big moments like the present one.
Big love, If I can answer any questions for you, don’t be a stranger
Julia