Rha Goddess

And could that be, could we see that as actually the possibility for the status quo instead of what it is that we're experiencing now?

It takes courage.

To confront what we've been given.

And I talk about this a lot in the book because for me, my history would be chattel slavery.

In terms of exactly the way in which my ancestors and elders came to this country.

And so that's a lot of pressure.

And even it's difficult, at least because sometimes that pressure is applied by people who love us.

Often it's applied by people who love us, who want us to succeed and they need us to be tough and they need us to be resilient and they need us to be all these things because of the nature of the world that they've inhabited and had to navigate in order to survive and thrive.

And so getting out of survival and what does it require?

is not only a mental conversation, it is an emotional, it is a physiological conversation.

And so we do have to come to the place of what are the ways in which we're nourishing ourselves in terms of self-love and self-care that enable us to move our nervous systems out of fight, flight, and fawn

And into grounding and peace and centering and clarity.

And that inevitably requires slowing down.

So when I say courage, having the courage to slow down, and dare I say in some cases having the courage to stop,

is one of the first steps in being able to start to unhook.

Because often it isn't until we can slow down and stop that we can actually even see what's operating.

Yeah, I think the first thing is to even begin to let in to whatever degree that you can that it is possible.

Because it's exactly what you're saying.

So much of what we get shown is that it isn't.

And so the conversation of get practical, get pragmatic, right?