Today

We explore opening up to ourselves; to being naked with ourselves first. We welcome in the strength of our story, our narrative, and our vulnerably to express it with resonance.

To do this, we listen to our breath. We listen to when we hold it. When it sharpens. We listen to what we have silenced for too long. There is no room for silence anymore.

In this listening, we will find what we avoid. We may find the shadows. In the shadows we can also find guilt, shame, avoidance... but if we let it, we can also find the opportunity of accountability.

In this deep listening of ourselves, of opening up to our vulnerability and to our shadows, we can heal our relationship to ourself. We can trust ourselves first. We can listen to our vessel, to our intuition in a higher vibration.

To know how to trust ourselves is our lesson to know how to trust others.

As we build our collective vision to liberation, yes, we need black consciousness, black vulnerability, black transcendence of the shadows... but we will also need to work with and trust allyship, accomplices. We can be open to receive this collaboration.

And so today, we build the soil for trust with ourselves first.

Weekly Questions: What are the masks that I wear that are ready to be put down? What is my relationship to accountability; with myself and to others I care for and value? How do I show up in authentic allyship without inviting the performance of my ego to steer? Where can I practice transformative justice within my most intimate relationships and interactions to be liberatory? Am I aware of the microaggressions committed in my presence, how will I begin responding to microaggressions? Can I relinquish my conditioned responses enough to invite expanded beliefs of liberation into my awareness?