Your Healing Story Is A Love Story

What if your wounds, your joy, and all your healing feelings are part of a massive, epic love story?

shared from the personal, intergenerational, and educational (un)learnings of Nisha Mody

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What do you deserve (in this economy)?

As someone who works around wellness and care and social justice, I hear a lot of rhetoric about what we “deserve”.

  • You deserve to live life on your terms.

  • I deserve respect and care.

  • We deserve healthcare and housing and basic human rights!

I even use it in one of my subject lines for those who opt-in to receive for my new free resource, 7 Tools to Cultivate Revolutionary Relationships in a Dystopian World (get it, it’s awesome!) 

I had never questioned the use of this word until one of my teachers, James-Olivia Chu Hillman, told me “deserve implies merit”.

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Do you have to earn the right to live life on your terms? Do I need to earn respect and care? Do we have to work/earn/achieve to have our basic needs yet?

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tending to my mother wound transformed my stress dreams

Whether it’s not being able to reach my car brakes as I’m driving out of control like I’m in a cartoon or trying to find my house or car or anything that can get me to safety, not enoughness is a theme of my dreams. It isn’t surprising that it’s at the core of my mother wound as well…and yet! I’ve had these dreams for years, and it wasn’t until a few months ago that I put these two themes together 🤦🏾‍♀️ I assumed my anxiety was about the anxieties of daily life and not being able to get what I wanted done, like so many of us in the throes of capitalistic and patriarchal productivity demands.

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