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A lil photo dump of a very healing journey to NorCal…✨✨✨

Where I experienced, among many magical things, the feeling of authentic happiness welling up in my heart every single day.❤️

One day, I was literally standing there in the sunlight, basking, eating an ice cream cone (it had cereal in it and ooommmggg was it ever the best!!) wearing my favorite sunnies, watching some kids riding their bikes by a train track…

And suddenly I started to cry…

This space opened up inside me - a channel in my heart that felt so full of light and life. I realized in that moment that being alive was more than enough for me to feel I deserve to be here - on Earth.

Not accomplishments, not degrees, not things, not “progress”, not doing…just being, among other beings, enjoying the feeling of seeing, tasting, breathing, moving, hearing, was all that I needed in that moment.

It felt like such an immense privilege just to exist. Which doesn’t mean I don’t still carry grief, pain, uncertainty, fear, and doubt…but I am now carrying them inside of a container of so much gratitude and so much appreciation for the fact of simply existing that it seems that something big is shifting in this heart and mind.

As a person who has battled with a lifetime of severe depression and at times, crippling anxiety, this feels like nothing short of a miracle!!!

I give thanks for every single one of you for being a part of my journey and hope I am allowed the chance to share these beautiful feelings in my heart with you sometime soon!!

All my love and joy…

Dr. King ❤️🤸🏾‍♀️💓🙏🏽✨

(The page with the quotes is from “Disordered Cosmos” by a queer, Black feminist perspective from quantum and astrophysicist Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein - my new shero!! — her work means everything to me, and if anyone who sees this can introduce us pllleeeeaaaase DO!!!!! 👀)

#happiness #presence #life #love #magic #joy #blackgirlmagic #compassion #ptreyes #wellbeing #nature #norcal #blackinstem #scientist #physics #science

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Jan 21

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Rest In Peace and Power Dearest Thay…💜💜💜

Words will never suffice to describe the influence of your Heart and your Spirit upon mine…and so many millions of your students. May we contemplate the way you embodied Mindfulness with every step you took, and every breath you drew. May we never forget the way you stood for embodied social justice, peace, and loving-awareness for every human and, really, every Being on this Earth.

You are, and always will be, a Beloved Teacher, Healer, and Leader - forever and ever. To me, you will always represent what I aspire to as I contemplate the meaning of Authentic Love.

Photo courtesy of: @plumvillagefrance

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Jan 18

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$✨A lil’ quote from my upcoming peer-reviewed paper on the “Science of Social Justice”:✨ “To understand what loving-awareness-in-action is about, we can look to the way in which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. defined the relationship between the internal cultivation and manifestation of love and non-violence as a means for moving towards justice, and agape, a term which further situates a nuanced understanding of loving-awareness. Dr. King once stated in his pivotal essay The Power of Non-Violence, that: “…nonviolent resistance is…an internal matter. It not only avoids external violence or external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. And so at the center of our movement stood the philosophy of love. The attitude that the only way to ultimately change humanity and make for the society that we all long for is to keep love at the center of our lives…love in its highest sense is not a sentimental sort of thing, not even an affectionate sort of thing…when we talk of loving those who oppose you and those who seek to defeat you we are not talking about eros or philia. The Greek language comes out with another word and it is agape. Agape is understanding, creative, redemptive good will for all men.” Agape is such an impactful way to understand the meaning of justice as loving-awareness-in-action because it names the existence of internal (meaning psychological, emotional and spiritual) as well as external violence as being in opposition to the cultivation of true justice. Agape demands the heart-level work of extending justice to anyone, regardless of their body or social location. It is similar to the statement, “if you have a body, then you deserve well-being”, which undergirds the ethos of the Science of Social Justice. In this way, those who occupy bodies which are associated with “the oppressor” and\or the “oppressed” are mutually bound in this quest to discover what justice looks and feels like in practice and embodiment.” ———> Both MLK and Thich Nat Hahn deeply inspired every aspect of my work…may their radical friendship be a model for all of us who seek to know what it means to let agape transform the world!!✨🙏🏽 #mlkday #lovewins$

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What does it mean to lead with love? 💜💜💜

This is a question that has been on my mind a lot as of late. I ask this of myself, because I know that there are many times in life when I encounter something, someone, or some situation where I can feel the emotion of fear rising up in my body.

Sometimes I feel fear rising in my heart around the idea of the unknown…feeling vulnerable…the idea of getting sick or someone I love suddenly falling ill.

Sometimes I feel fear around the idea that I will be caught sounding like I dont know what I am talking about (ever feel that way?) in a moment where I’m supposed to be a “professional” or an “expert” and that I will be called out for being ignorant.

Sometimes I feel fear when I start planning for the future, and the thought arises that I really have no idea what will happen in my future regardless of the plans that I make!!

Sometimes I feel fear when I question whether I am making right decisions for myself and my family…

And on, and on…the fear circus of the mind has infinite fodder to build upon each moment, doesn’t it?

But lately, every time I am paying attention and aware of the arising of fear in my body…usually accompanied by a racing heart and mind, and a tight squeezing sensation in my throat, the thought comes to mind “lead with love”.

The idea of leading with love has come to mean to me that even if I don’t know the “right answer” <hello inner perfectionist!> in terms of what to do or say in any given moment, I can take comfort that if I lean into the love in my heart as best I can at the same time, whatever I say or do will come from a place of warmth, humility, and self-compassion…and when “leading with love” is practiced in the context of relationships, those sensations can transform potential conflict or misunderstanding into moments of connection and belonging.

It is a very imperfect process, but lucky for us, each moment offers up an opportunity to start all over again!✨✨✨

Thank you to my Sis and BFF Soco Rey @yourfavoritetherapist for taking this photo of me being VERY Pisces 🥰👀

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