Tricia Hersey
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156 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Yes. Liberation is a process. It's ongoing. It's always happening. Give thanks for that. Give thanks for not having to have it perfect right now and not having to always have it right. And I also feel like The idea of this being an experimentation and this being work that is going to be expanded upon. These are the tenets of, I believe, that will help get us free. But expand on this work.
This is your work to expand on. This is your work to experiment with. This work isn't static.
it's gonna move it's gonna flow as things happen you are the best teacher of what you know is right for your own body your body is this beautiful temple that has all this information but it can't share that information with you if you're in an exhausted state i have a meme where i talk about go like create a conference for your body you know like all these conferences that everybody wants to help
about you do a conference and that conference is a snap. You just do an agenda. The conference call that I'm going to be on is one of sleeping and resting because in that state, I will be able to gain information that I can't get in an awake world. And so the more people can understand that this is not a waste of time, that this is, there's information waiting for you in your dreams.
There's information your body wants to share with you. There's information I believe my ancestors want to give me, but they're like, she won't stop. She won't slow down enough for us to be able to transmit that. to download, to be able to grab and hold that information because you're always spinning on this wheel.
And so to slow down is to allow the portal to open, the antenna to open, the antenna to link in, to allow you to get some information, to allow you to see your way out, to heal your way out, to create a new world, really. It's creating new worlds.
Absolutely.
Yes, it is. It's imagination work. It's dream work. It's bending time. I believe when we rest, we bend time. We queer time. We allow for a new way to be made. And I love this idea when I think about reparations and I have a poem where I talk about this and I say, I will recapture the dream space that was stolen from you. We'll be resurrected in our dreams.
And so for me to be able to recapture the dream space that was stolen from my ancestors in this dimension in the now is, to say rest was stolen from you, your whole autonomy as a human was stolen from you, what could they have figured out if they were more rested? I believe that my answer just probably could have had really detailed and more unique ways of escaping if they were rested.
I think about Harriet Tubman and her Underground Railroad and her prophecy of saying, my people are free. You know, she was screaming, my people are free. She woke up from a dream one day and it's documented. She was like, my people are free. She said it in this tense. It wasn't, they're going to be free. They're free now. So this prophecy, the prophetic idea that we are free now, that
The now is this is now. We don't have to wait for anyone to tell us that, to give us that. And I think about her stopping on the Underground Railroad, walking to freedom and not having a map, not having a written map. But she did have a map. She had her internal spiritual map and she had the stars. So she was a beautiful astronomer and she could track stars and track the sky.
But it's written that she stopped to pray so many times that there was no rush anymore. Even trying to run to freedom. It was freedom of death. If they were caught, they would be killed.
And so to understand that she wasn't even a Russian trying to walk to freedom, to walk from Virginia to Philadelphia, walk from here to Canada, taking hundreds of people with her and stopping and never once being caught.
never once being called and she's stopping to pray but we can't but then people tell me they don't have a moment to take 10 minutes of a little daydreaming session like you got a cell phone you got this you got that and they're stopping on the running for their lives stopping to pray to get she would say she would get um a word from god on which way to go should we go left at the river or right
Let me stop. And she would feel that energy and she would go the other way. She never was caught. To be that in tune with spirit and your body and the idea of slowing down. Those are the people who I model. Those are the ones I say I gain access from. I know that this is not impossible. People would have thought a woman like that would have never stopped to pray. We got to get our bags.
We got to run. The dogs are on us. But it wasn't that. She was understanding that we're in tune with our freedom, that our freedom is waiting for us, that our body wants to be well, that our body wants to be healthy, that our wellness is our way of life, that this is a natural state to be more human.
To be more human is to be well, is to be connected, is to understand that you don't have to rush, is to be a counter narrative, to say no to all that was taught to you. Everything taught to you was a lie and it's not trying to benefit your divine body. So to begin to reimagine and bring new language and new ideas into that space, that's what rest can provide.
That is wellness.
Yeah, I love it.
Exactly. That's right. One of my favorites. I love Audre Lorde so much.
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