I’ve been posting ASK/TELL ME ANYTHING for a while now to my social feeds. It’s been something that has given me a great sense of connection + pleasure in a place that often makes me feel isolated and numb. Social media originally was designed to connect us, but the ways in which we now navigate news media, advertising, and AI in the social spheres, it has become for me (and I’ll say likely many others) overwhelming and uninspiring.
I love connection. If you haven’t been able to tell. And what I love most about Substack is that it feels fresh and the people here move with an open heart and curious mind. It feels possible to connect in ways I have not found on the most popular platforms. And, even more so, it feels like a playground. A place for trying and exploring.
So I’m going to attempt a weekly ASK ME ANYTHING podcast/video where I dive deeper into questions that come through from the collective + community. I’ll share what the initial conversation is in the post and I’ll hop on the Substack video to dive in in real time. This ASK ME ANYTHING piece will be unedited and, true to the form I want it to take, will hopefully feel more like an open conversation than a calculated response to sell you something (or anything). The intention is purely to connect, inspire deeper thinking, and to share ideas in dialog through this digital world.
These ideas, thoughts, opinions are my own unless otherwise credited and are informed by my lived experiences and influenced by my study, work, and mentors, and musings. Take what resonates, leave the rest. If you want to join the conversation - leave a comment below or hit us up in the chat.
Click the play button and let’s dive in.
From the notes:
It’s important for me to say and for you to understand that my skills and expertise in this work is because I do this work every single day with and on myself. I study + train from others work. I meet with a therapist, a coach, a trainer, and other practitioners. I go to classes. I practice + use somatic tools and refine and define them to be most beneficial for me. I have hard conversations. I hurt peoples feelings and try to make space for repair. I close my heart and open it again and again. I forget boundaries and have to create new ones. I cry, I rage. I love, I play.
I am skilled at this work not simply because I read about it. Or study others misery, pain or desires from theories and classrooms. Or even because I just hold space for others to work through their challenges + expand their edges. My expertise in this work comes from the ways I dedicate to being in deep relationship with this work, life + others. I am diligently learning more about intimacy + relationship through my own life in every single way and create the space to feel, experience, rewrite, and expand what I discover.
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