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New Year Cleansing & Reset Ritual for 2022

Peace beautiful family! The ever popular Nu Year, Nu Me Ritual has been updated, and is your new & improved guidance on shaking off 2021 and stepping into 2022 fresh and renewed! Some of the instructions have been clarified, and there are some additional prayers added to the resource to help connect this ritual with your Creator the Most High. There is also more clarification on what ingredients are required and what is not. You shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get the materials for this rituals - most of the items should be in your home. I...

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The Wild, Wild Woman

What does it mean to be a wild woman?  Lately, I have been reading Women Who Run With the Wolves, hungrily, with keen pacing. I’m savoring, and speeding through, and slowing down, and going back, and skipping forward all up and through this wonderful collection of analyzed myths that remind us of the innate power of the primal self. Written by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run With the Wolves explores the intricacies of innate instincts of the wild woman archetype. LISTEN: Wild Woman Playlist    What is a wild woman? I’m only half way through the book, but I already...

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Grounding 101 & Hot Cocoa for Grounding Recipe

We are spiritual beings in physical bodies. There must be a balance between the spiritual and the physical. 

The weight of trauma and external stressors can overstimulate our nerves, making the soft edges of our spirit want to disassociate and retreat. That weight hangs overhead like a stormcloud, making it more and more difficult to come back into ourselves. 

Even spiritual work can leave you too “top heavy” - you know that spacey, floaty, anxious, dazed, out-of-body and disconnected feeling? These are all symptoms of being ungrounded. If you notice you:

• Have trouble focusing 
• Clumsy, bumping into things, stubbing toe
• Dizzy, light-headed
• Spaced out, fuzzy, daydreaming 
• Get lost easily 
• Losing track of what you were about to do or say 
• Forgetful, misplacing your keys, etc 

Remind yourself that your body is your home right now. Remind yourself that you belong in this world, on this plane, in that beautiful body you call a home. Remind yourself you are here for a reason. Your existence is not by chance.

• Ancestor work
• Root chakra

5 Lessons on Ancestor Work from Pixar's Coco

I watched Coco around the time it was released last year, and I am still shook. I didn't really have a frame of reference as to what the movie was about, and I was floored at how powerful the message about Egun or ancestors that was presented. The second time I watched it, I cried harder than I did the first time. 

Wait...

Before I even get started, let me say,

Ahem. If you have not watched Pixar's Coco, go watch it now.

Yes, this post will have spoilers and yes, it’s good. It's heart-warming, it's beautifully done, it's important. And it's on Netflix. Go watch Coco. Now. 

K.

Now that that's out the way.

I won't spend much talking about everything I love about this movie - from the intricacies of the accurate guitar fingering or the nod to the story of Orpheus. Rather, I want to focus on some of the important lessons about ancestral work that were reinforced in the movie Coco.

1) Healing Ancestral Trauma

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Ancestor Work & Your Root Chakra

As a black American, I find myself spending a lot of time working on my root chakra.

The root chakra or mūlādhāra (in Sanskrit) literally translates to root support, and is found at the seat of the spine. The root chakra is the foundation of the energetic body. The root chakra is associated with identity, physicality, grounding, and safety. The root chakra is also directly connected to our ancestral lineage. This is why root chakra work is an essential practice to anyone who identifies as a Black American.