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The blight of 'Ayahuasca tourism' from two #Indigenous women of the Ecuadorian #Amazon, storytellers and land defenders, Nina Gualinga and Eli Virkina
'When healing is stripped of its collective foundation, it no longer nourishes true awakening. Instead, it risks becoming a performance that elevates the self, not the whole, opposing the very essence of Indigenous healing, which is rooted in relationship, humility and shared wellbeing'
Plus
Fascinating article here from Glenn Shepard which gives detailed background history on the relatively recent emergence of #Ayahuasca use, and how it has tipped the balance of #gender relations in #healing traditions
https://c.im/@TootTropiques/114456450398370624
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Something personal. I can't always tell what is oversharing, what may seem or be self-obsessed, and what may be self-indulgent. But I hope this sincere sharing will be a good thing, so here goes. Another long one 🤷🏼♀️💕
Nearly a year and a half ago, the fortress that contained and hid my transness from myself and the world crumbled. It was as tho a dam had burst. In just a weekend, a lifetime of repression was transformed. Immediately, I understood everything had changed. It was and remains an ecstatic release of cleansing life force. There was no return, and I recall feeling 'well, this is going to be challenging'
But here, I want to just mention one aspect. My wife of now 27 years, my soul mate, my long suffering partner in crime, with, believe it or not, her own internal existence, had at that time (and to a tragic degree still is) been deeply agoraphobic. None of you here know her, so I don't believe she will mind me mentioning this much so that I can describe one particular challenge of many that I personally have faced
By the time of that fateful weekend, years and years of personal struggles had brought us both to a state of profound isolation, but this is a sharing about my own experience
I had to step out into the world as a trans woman alone. This had at least two aspects. First, that took courage. That weekend, I went shopping and haven't touched (literally!) my old clothes again. And I am deeply proud of myself for having possessed the courage, regardless of who I would meet, to step out into the world, never to hide again, every day since. So, I began the liberating process of transition. It was not an event but a process of growth and self-discovery that had begun. Not one that required will or my imposition on reality. Instead, it was beautiful nature working her magic, and all I had to do was yield. In just under a year and a half, so much has changed. Everything
But across that time, I have mourned not having my wife by my side. There to witness my courage, to see those social aspects of myself flourish, to provide her moral support, to share in a whole half of what I was experiencing and to escape those negative circular neuroses, to bathe herself in nature, nourished by new experience. To help me make female friends and learn how to relate differently to the world. To be caught up in the energy of my healing and find her own
It was meant to be this way. In this long period at the beginning, I was meant to walk alone in full public view. I held several perspectives that helped. I accepted she would find her own way when she could. I have faith that life unfolds in ways that are wise, known only to itself, and that are magical. And I'm quite a rewriter of personal narratives 😉. I knew that whichever direction our lives took, I would be able to transform the story into one laced with meaning and gifts for us both
But, oh my, I have had to dig deep for patience. I mention those qualities because they are objectively true. Equally true is that I can be irrepressible and impatient. So when, day after day, I stepped outside and she stayed home, it felt hard. I had to resist feeling guilt at liberating myself. I had to allow her to face the challenges that my liberation presented to her. And each day, I returned to find her seeming to be in the same dark place. And each day, I kept the faith
Now we have reached the happy outcome stage of my sharing 😊💕
Over the last few weeks, like a hedgehog coming out of hibernation, she has started to appear. I have been able to show her some of the secret footpaths through woodland that I have discovered. We have walked together along the canal, smiled at passers by together, sat under my favourite sitting tree, and had a packed lunch by the river. By her own choosing, she had a proper haircut at the local hairdressers (ie not one I've learnt how to do via YT videos)
This is monumental for her
And for me? I can't tell you how much this means. It feels indescribably wonderful and a huge relief to be in this world, as a trans woman now, with her. Another liberation. Another release of Nature's flow, tho a more gentle and gradually one, with, no doubt, twist and turns still ahead
So here is a short video I recorded while with my love and my soul mate of 27 years, at a spot by the divine local river just a gentle walk down the canal from home, each of us yielding to change
I offer it as 2 minutes of inspiration to yield to the flow 😘
Love ya all 🥰
https://youtu.be/YQaJbLP6-To
#trans #lgbtqia #healing #nature
An inner wound is:
- truth that had no place
- love that became silence
- power that learned to fold itself into safety
And healing isn’t “getting over it.”
Healing is reclaiming the original signal
without apology.
Human #epidermal growth factor (#hEGF) is crucial for many applications, including wound #healing. A new strategy, developed by Park et al., uses #plant systems to produce EGF that outperforms its commercial counterpart.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13936
@wileyplantsci
#PlantSci #JIPB #botany #Pharming
"Healing" không đơn thuần là phục hồi thể chất, mà là quá trình Gen Z nuôi dưỡng tâm trí, cảm xúc, tìm lại sự cân bằng và hạnh phúc; bài viết lý giải vì sao thế hệ này luôn nói "mình cần được chữa lành". #Healing #GenZ #chualanh #gioitinhtuoiteen Link: https://www.gioitinhtuoiteen.org.vn/teenager/thuat-ngu/healing-la-gi/