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I want to be safe.
Not to FEEL safe, to BE SAFE.
I want enough.
I want enough power over and in my life
To Be Safe.
I want YOU to be safe.
And by safe I mean
Physical:
Safe in your body
Safe in your relationships
Safe clean secure housing that you don't fear losing
Food safety, quality and quantity both
Water safety - clean, clear, plentiful.
Emotional safety: at work, at home, ok n the street, everywhere.
Medical safety: equitable respectful access to healthcare for whatever you need, physical mental or emotional.
Political safety: to never again fear being attacked by politicians with power-over for being what you are.
Because if we are safe, we can heal.
If we are safe we can learn contentment, and how to be free of fear and pain.
If we are safe, we can be humane. We can help others.
My husband's arm around my waist makes me feel safe, but that Feeling is not guaranteed.
What can you do to feel safe?
What can you do to help someone else feel safe?
I dont identifie as female (it moves between both, male and nothing), but I still use female bathrooms because Im to nervouse to use male ones even on days where i identifie as male. Im worried that might be a prett shitty thing to do, since i tend to present rather masculine
Bathrooms are about where we relieve our bodies. They are not some litmus test of validation for gender. Even people who identify as a woman are not obligated to present femininely, and they still use women’s bathrooms.
Please use whatever bathroom you feel safest in. It is never bad to take action to keep yourself physically safe.
~Pluto
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☆ From Safety to Sweetness ☆
I have been noticing lately several people pointing out that what they are currently looking for in relating is emotional safety. And it made reflect on why that didn't fully resonate with what I am experiencing and wanting to delve into more.
Safety has for the longest time been on the forefront of my mind, though it referred to physical safety from potential harm through violence. But that attachment and focus born out of a protective hyper-vigilance ended years ago. Thankfully.
Emotional safety was something I did not actively and consciously look for, as I had rarely experienced it consistently nor (un)consciously believed it could be a 'normal' to strive for. Predominantly experiencing emotionally volatile and often unsafe relating had impressed on me the importance to get better at protecting myself, at taking hits, and fighting more effectively. Habituating me in time to facing high level of distorted and combative energies without even giving myself the opportunity of exiting or becoming skillful at averting them. Awareness of the cost of such energies to my mental and physical health and growing self compassion have motivated me to focus more on listening to my body's feedback, and being gentle with myself and others while moving away from such dynamics. Yet having gone through countless experiences of unsafe emotional relating has had an interesting side-effect: the knowing that I can and will not only survive but also use it for my growth.
My focus is not on emotional safety because I know from experience that disruptions are sometimes necessary to break me out of entrenched patterns and therefore gifts of healing and growth, when received appropriately. And I am aware what a privilege it is to be able to say that emotional safety is no longer the focal point of awareness to me. It also means that I have reclaimed enough internal balance, integration, and harmony to focus on more subtle and creative aspects of relating.
These days my measure and focus for the kind of relating I desire to co-create, experience more, and which is my current growth edge, is sweetness. Sweetness, not in the sense of the saccharine artifice many mistake for it or try to present but as a quality arising within me in certain relational moments or in connections.
Sweetness is a softness of spirit, fragrant and sweet to the heart and being, it symbolizes to me a drinking of ambrosia from my own cup. Sweetness can have incredibly healing, nourishing, grounding as well as liberating and inspiring effects on mind and body. There is a shimmering warmth and timeless quality to her. An experience of being without or few overlays of persona and conditioning, where spaciousness is equally present as is a sense of being held in (a welcome) containment.
Sweetness is a state where oneness and being an individual co-exist in awareness. And from this awareness and fascinating embodied experience the self expression, energy, and needs of an 'other' are perceived with awe, embraced, and met in a spirit of loving generosity.
Being met with sweetness in another when I feel distress or dysregulated is still an incredibly magical and tangibly transformative experience to my system. Some aspects of me still need time and a slower pace to allow it in as the specters of facsimiles of sweetness and their poisonous sting are still very present to them. It is lovely to observe them allow it in with more and more trust, as they remember the delight they feel at being met by sweetness from the Self. It is one of the most precious gifts of love the Self offers aspects/parts/exiles/shadow.
There is no judgement, hierarchy, or harshly contrasting duality in sweetness' golden shimmering luminosity. Sweetness is a healing salve to wounds of separation (abandonment, rejection, neglect) and disablingly stuck emotions (shame, guilt, fear), a healing frequency emitting ceaselessly towards the inner tribe, an invitation to attune and thrive in the harmonious and joyful resonance it co-creates with them.
Sweetness does not need the other to be a certain way, she might offer other perspective vantage points as a gift of her spaciousness and to support an easing of contractions and tensions held in the other. Sweetness is effortlessly giving with his warm conscious gaze and welcoming embrace to all that arises and is present.
Sweetness embraces all things, knows them to to be the One in the many, and honors everything and its role in the unfolding of reality.
Sweetness is the gateway to novel relational co-creative explorations I am open and drawn towards in all relationships. A gateway to walking and exploring unknown lands as the trusting and playful golden children we truly are at heart.
Safety is a given, when sweetness is present.
Photography: 'Father and Son' by Steve McCurry (1980)
Source: https://venuskind.de/2023/04/from-safety-to-sweetness/
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From Beirut To Minneapolis
A protest guide in solidarity
In solidarity with protesters in Minneapolis and other American cities, Lebanese technologists, protesters, and activists put together this document as a guide for escalating protests and documenting police abuse. We recognize that our experiences and lived realities are different, but in the same way that we’ve found solidarity with Hong Kong and Chile protesters, we wanted to extend ours to others.