Decolonizing your magic

When the reframe allows for ease 💆

Hi, my friend!  How are you doing?  Can you believe that summer is here?!  My favorite season happens to coincide with parts of the world coming to life and with that, the return of “the hustle.”

Last time I wrote about resting and how being flung into things quickly caused me to drop it all and run off to the woods when given the opportunity.  And that all got me thinking and speaking with the people in my life - how we see “the hustle” as the only way to succeed and calling everything else “lazy.”  But what if it isn't laziness, but EASE?

The concept was one that my hypnotherapist named for me - as I was sharing with her my history of how things often came easily to me, I framed not wanting to run myself into the ground with hard work as being lazy.  But as she pointed out, that is the colonizer's mindset - keep people busy so that they don't have a chance to think, or feel, or reconsider how there may be other ways of moving through the world.  So I've been focusing on the reframe of EASE.  It isn't that I don't work hard and am not willing to get my hands dirty when needed, but things don't always have to be so exhausting and difficult.

So, this summer I am continuing the work on reframing how things flow to and through me with ease and ditching that L word.  What are you decolonizing for yourself?  Reply and let me know ✨

Decolonize your magic,
Emily