Soul Salon with Ayandastood

precious being, if you feel it's TOO LATE this soul session was handmade for you.

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a reminder to never minimize what you are bringing and embodying and how we cannot wait to experience your magic on the train you feel too late to catch. shame and ageist timelines and a culture obsessed with doing things "first, early, youngest" can prevent us from feeling worthy of even TRYING to pursue our dreams, at any age. a loving reminder that the train misses you. we are ready to receive you. are you ready to make your offering?! i love you ❤️

00:00 Not too late

03:02 Multiple versions of you 

06:01 Creative Activations

07:33 The Train 

11:56 Creative Kinship

17:00 Generosity

19:44 Ripples

20:55 You 10 years from now

22:00 Polarity & illusions

24:03 Collective Utopia

25:03 Creative Activations

Related Soul Sessions:

54: manifest with the law of polarity

44: the collective is dreaming through you.

35: awakening to possibility.

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My love, your dreams have sent you this message to remind you to surrender to the full experience of their pursuit. And since the collective is dreaming through you, we all ask this of you: to hold the polarity of your dreams.

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We do not get to experience the beauty of a dream without the challenges. Every gift has a challenge and every challenge has a gift — this is wat the universal law of polarity teaches us.

In this Soul Session, we invite the law of polarity to expand our Creative Consciousness by teaching us to accept the FULLNESS of our dreams, NOT the illusion of them (ironically).

I hope you enjoy today's Soul Session, made with love ❤️

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babes, the IRONY of this soul session is my inner critic is telling me it is not good enough to share. that i should record it again (and the illusion is that I wouldn't find fault with that version, as well).

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so in SHARING this transmission i am also embodying it, which, I think, is rather delicious and beautiful. from the deepest part of my soul, i want to remind you that your worth does not come from your ability to meet a perfectionistic standard.

do not define yourself by all you COULD HAVE said, it minimizes the generosity and power of all you did say.

do not define yourself by all the edits you COULD have made to your creation, it erases the wholeness of all you did create.

i am on this journey with you, towards overcoming perfectionism, towards GENUINELY embodying and believing that we are endlessly worthy of all kinds of creation, towards unlearning perfectionistic standards learned in childhood.

i love you so much, SOUL SIBLING!!!!!!!

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in today's soul session, i share three powerful shifts to overcome the fear of being seen & the fear of judgement. we get into radically accepting the truth, integrating our own judgement, seeing beyond the Critic, and creating the world we wish to see. I introduce my method, Soulful Visibility, and share a personal story of a challenge I had making this episode...

I hope you enjoy today's soul session, made with love! 💛🌻🥰

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(08:16): Shift #2: Integrate judgement

(14:08): Shift #3: Blocked expression 

(19:52): Personal story

Sources mentioned

Essay: ⁠⁠The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action⁠⁠ by Audre Lorde

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MULTI-PASSIONATES, ASSEMBLE! if you want to do a LOT of different things, but you fear confusing other people, this is your sign: BE CONFUSING! This is a continuation of a TikTok I posted. We are RECLAIMING the state of confusion from this colonially imagined, logic-obsessed world. are you coming?!

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Sources mentioned:

✨ Maya Angelou on Courage

Also mentioned:

✨ Creative Kinship MasterClass Part 2: Register here

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Sending love beams, soul siblings! I am hosting a FREE MasterClass on Creative Kinship on Zoom this Sunday, June 30 @ 10am-11:30am EST / 2-3:30pm UTC. Register here.

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Sources mentioned:

Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life by Dacher Keltner

“comparison is the thief of joy” they say, a quote originally from Former US President Theodore Roosevelt (random!). but what does the idea that we just "shouldn't" compare ourselves to each other ignore, and in turn, normalize? find out in this soul session and learn:

Time stamps:

(02:46): Shame & comparison
(03:49): Individualism 

(06:28): Crisis Response (Bayo Akomolafe)
(09:08): The Myth of Normal (Gabor Mate)
(14:25): Atomization & Authenticity (Byung Chul-Hun)
(22:06): Collective path
(25:11): Social structures 

(26:42): Comparison as a cultural cold
(33:36): Reimagine social systems
(34:40): Essay: Comparison as Symptom (Me)
(34:54): Thank you for being here 

Sources Mentioned:

Philosopher: ⁠Bayo Akomolafe⁠ 
Podcast: Jung and the World Podcast: One to One with Bayo Akomolafe

Book: The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present by Byung-Chul Han

Essay: Comparison as Symptom by me on my Substack

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Hi my loves, this is the second and final part of my mini-series uplifting the work of abolitionist scientist Dr Ayesha Khan⁠  who writes the most beautiful, informative, revolutionary ⁠Cosmic Anarchy⁠ Substack. If you haven't already, be sure to catch Part 1 on Spotify here and on Apple here. Again, I am reaching imperfectly — for Palestine, for you, for this work.

ESSAYS mentioned: 

Subscribe to ⁠Cosmic Anarchy⁠ Substack. Learn more about ⁠Dr Ayesha Khan⁠ website & Follow on IG @thewokescientist⁠

Poem: ⁠If I Must Die⁠ by Refaat Alareer

Essay: Ethics, Risk & Apocalypse by Peter Gelderloos 

Book: ⁠Imagination: A Manifesto⁠ by Dr. Ruha Benjamin

Other resources:

14 Trusted Charities Helping Civilians in Palestine

hello soul siblings 🥰, I have MISSED YOU! 🫶🏾 as we bear witness to genocide and support and uplift the student and other protests in response, today I want to share and amplify the work of the WONDER-MAGIC-FUL Dr Ayesha Khan  who writes the beautiful, informative, revolutionary Cosmic Anarchy Substack, which I am entirely obsessed with. I am sharing their work imperfectly, reaching for these words, and reaching for you. I send you my love, today and always. Thank you for being here. 🥺💛

ESSAYS mentioned: 

Subscribe to Cosmic Anarchy Substack

Learn more about Dr Ayesha Khan website + Follow on IG @thewokescientist

Poem: If I Must Die by Refaat Alareer

Palestine Is a Story Away: A Tribute to Refaat Alareer by Mosab Abu Toha

Book: Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine edited by Refaat Alareer 

Learn more about Dr Ayesha Khan website

Follow Khan on IG at @thewokescientist

Other sources mentioned (in order):

Book: Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe

Book: In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power, Communities: Precarity, Power, Communitie by Joy James

Book: Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown

Soul Salon episode: 7: viral justice ft. Ruha Benjamin podcast episode on Spotify and Apple

Book: Viral Justice: How We Grow The World We Want by Dr. Ruha Benjamin

Book: Imagination: A Manifesto by Dr. Ruha Benjamin

Essay: How the Universe resembles a human brain by Paul Ratner

Essay: Heavy, difficult emotions are important to face & only overwhelming when carried alone by Dr. Ayesha Khan

Other resources:

14 Trusted Charities Helping Civilians in Palestine

Time stamps

(01:00): Intro to Dr Ayesha Khan & Cosmic Anarchy

(13:46): Deconstruct & Reconstruct

(15:38): #1: Dehumanization of Palestinian men & buys

(31:09): Reflections & Resources

(34:30): The importance of in-person community

(40:26): Poem: If I Must Die by Refaat Alareer