As a person who has occupied complicated and complex spaces since childhood, I know first hand what it is like to question absolutely everything. In certain moments, days, seasons and times, nothing seems to make sense. I was only 8 years old when I experienced my first substantial loss. And, it was only a few short years later when my body began to experience life limiting disharmonies from physical illness to what became chronic pain. My time in spaces where the female form was taught love-as-sacrifice only strengthened the war going on in my body, mind and soul. And yet here, I’ve still been able to find solid ground. It is because of my her-story that I sit with you today in some of the most challenging life spaces.

We matter, darling soul.