YOU ARE ENOUGH Healing the Planet Begins With You

HEALING THE PLANET BEGINS WITH YOU

What comes to mind when you think about the word healing? Do you imagine a doctor, a nurse? Do you envision an herbalist or kitchen witch? Do you imagine services you would like to book and have done? Or do you turn your attention to your very own body? Let me relieve you, none of those answers are wrong, however, over the years in my work as a holistic coach, healer and Kemetic yoga instructor, there is an answer I hear from my clients much less than any others and that answer is the body. Why? Many of us are in a perpetual loop of seeking answers outside of ourselves and even for those of us that are actively trying to unlearn the programs that have us turn away from ourselves and look to others for our worth, our value, to complete us or to fix us, it can be a tedious, messy process to find our way back to Self.

One of my favorite proverbs or life motto is "as above so below, as within so without" Meaning that our actions are a reflection of what we value (or not), our reality is a reflection of our innermost beliefs and our communities then as well as the (state of the) planet is a reflection of how we engage with our own homes, Mother archetypes

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and the way we show up in relationships in general. For example - have you ever wondered what the home of a person who litters looks like? Have you ever had a conversation or studied the values of those who make GMO foods or dump waste in the oceans? Those are just two examples, but you get the point - how we treat the planet is TRULY a reflection of how we treat ourselves, and in my opinion the climate crisis is never going to shift if people do not have an internal revelation and start caring more about how they treat their own bodies, minds, hearts and homes. Whether we like it or not, the two are absolutely interconnected and I'm here to bring that perspective to the table. I'm all about environmental justice (see my chapter on "Earth service"), but once again I say - it is not just an external, "outside of us issue" . We have to, collectively, have a complete reorientation to waste reduction, consumption, capitalism, etc which may mean releasing or replacing some creature comforts. We have to be willing to hold ourselves accountable to our ecosystems, which means first realizing that we are ALL apart of one. We have to take the conversation beyond recycling and composting to actual reverse engineer simple solutions or actions that we can take every day to reduce our dependence on plastics, gather groups for litter cleanup, upcycling clothing, engage in and choose to by from Certified B Corps or fair trade, living wage businesses. There is alot that can be done. Yet none of it will matter or last if you do not remember your place in this fragile web of life and step outside of your human meat suit for a moment to remember that being on Earth means you do not have the luxury of only thinking about yourself. Your children and the entire galaxy

depends on it.