HeyJaredWayward Women
Writer and coach musing on the portals of perimenopause, archetypes and ancestors, deep healing, dancing in the shadows, joy as an act of resistance, training to be harder to kill, radical autonomy, music, love, creativity, food, pleasure and rocks.
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Life as a living push-back against a culture of exhaustion, pain and fear. (opens the original)
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How I know I'm safe, seen and regulated in community (opens the original)
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As an undiagnosed neurodivergent kid, I felt unsafe most of the time, though I never would have been able to name it that way.From a sensory perspective, everything was too much or not enough. I was constantly over or under-stimulated, and frustrated by the inability to adjust my external environment.Sitting still was painful. Bedtime was stupid. Like, why would I go to sleep when I’m not tired yet?Being interrupted when in hyperflow, or forced to do something I didn’t want to do, led to meltdow
"I desire" drips off the tongue; "I desire" is coated in honey. (opens the original)
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Who taught you to fear pleasure? (opens the original)
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A few nights, I was deep in a practice as part of an Ecosomatics course I’m doing Dr. Brittany Jane Laidlaw. The topic was darkness; specifically about how the parts of self we confront in the absence of light often lead us to the parts we’ve exiled, the parts we need to embrace and try to understand.This work is not new to me, but was no less confronting. I’ve met my selfish parts; my hag; my envious self. My victim. My bitterness and cynical nature thrive in these places. I’ve loved them and h
Dear LinkedIn, it's not you. Actually, it is. (opens the original)
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In late May I travelled home to the wilderness of Nova Scotia. Parts of my visit were busy with family catchups and celebrations. I did, however, manage to carve out four blissful days at my family cabin.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="640" src
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