David Codney & Kim Moran host Wherever It Takes Us, a podcast where no topic is too uncomfortable, taboo, or off-limits. It's a funny, vulnerable, no b.s. exploration into anything and everything. The hosts and their guests engage in authentic and uncensored deep dives into the abyss of life.
In this episode, Tracy and Kim talk about processing the devastation of gun violence in America, somatically. It's a different conversation than most. It's slow, it's filled with shaking voices, and tears, and lots of breath. We offer this as perhaps a model for how to have difficult conversations about anything, and stay in relationship, in community, with others that may have different viewpoints from ours.
Excerpt from A Great Wagon- Rumi
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.
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"I beg you to feel.
Yes, go gently, take your time, resource yourself, work with your nervous system, do it your way… but please do not numb, neglect, override, suppress, invalidate, minimize, or suppress all that deserves to be felt within you.
Make space to;
Bear your teeth.
Scream.
Pound your fists into the bed.
Hum.
Rock.
Breathe.
Connect.
Shake.
Orient.
Sway.
Cry.
Ground.
Prowl.
Grab handfuls of the earth.
Attune.
Roar.
Tone.
Stick your tongue out.
Gargle.
Touch, tap, hold, feel, massage your body.
Chant.
Activate the senses.
Allow yourself to be held by the earth, a human, a hammock, whatever you choose.
Do whatever you need to do to presence with your emotional body’s pain and despair and give yourself a way to release.
It doesn’t have to be acceptable, approved of, or like anyone else. It is your process. You can take your time. It may be one thing for five seconds or all the things for days, it is your process. It can be loud and fierce and it can be gentle and soothing, your process.
Many of us are the product of what we were told, what was implied, how we were treated, what would be less of a burden, what made others comfortable, others wants and needs, the minimization of us. Break that cycle. Be who you need. Come home to your body at your pace. Let it be your place and your process of release, surrender, and refuge, and peace.
Please steward your pain well. Honor who its for.
You should feel. Feeling is aliveness. Come back to life. Rejuvenate your wholeness. We need you.
Go gently (as needed)"
NOURISHED COMMUNITY
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David Codney:
Website: Acidandsalt.com
Instagram: @chefcodney
Kim Moran:
Website: kimmorancoaching.com
Equineandhuman.com
Instagram: @kimcalifornia
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