Episode 102: Why I Created A Space for Everyone To Belong
In this episode, Alisha is sharing how she is coping with the transition into autumn, where she is on her grief journey and how her childhood shaped what she offers in Yoke and Abundance today.
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Episode 102 show Notes!
Just past the equinox
Struggling with the colder and darker days
Cautiously moving into the fall, doubling down on my tools.
Time for me to move into my work outs more seriously
Kicked it into high gear since covid started as far as work goes
Holding space in RAW
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Squeezing blood from a rock in my creative life
If you’re not in the seat doing it, you won’t be there when inspiration comes
We make it look easy and fun, but under that is diligent doing, hard work
My brain could really use a break.
I haven’t taken a week off this year
Creativity is going to be a major tool for me as we move into the darker days of fall.
Presences
When we are present with ourselves there is nothing but the truth
We put off our creative projects because we are afraid of what we will uncover
If we dive into our creativity with presence we meet our lives
The beauty lives in our true selves
It has been a long road since covid started and my job has been to hold space for others, but I need some space and I need to tend to my own feelings, my own relationships.
How is my journey with grief? How has grief influenced my path?
In some ways I feel closer to my dad now because I talk to him every day, I write to him almost every day, I ask him for help and for guidance.
Is divinity Real?
So much of my life is focused on on work. I’m giving myself my running time back to myself.
Sometimes the grief is so fresh
The grief sits with us
It’s so strange that one minute someone is living and then they’re not. No room for goodbye. In my grief journey I’m wondering where it will lead. The cycles of grief are not linear, but they are present for me all the time.
Grief comes up on dates and it’s weird talking about it.
Dating in the time of covid.
Dreading my birthday
I used to be so proud that my birthday was so close to my dad’s. I don’t think there can ever be joy around my birthday again because it’s such a highlight of who’s not there.
I want to be an actress.
Goosebumps books by R.L Stein are what got me into reading
I was bullied
My little sensitive self
I have to resist the urge to other myself.
I have to not buy into making myself “other”
That’s why I created a space where everyone else feels like they belong
Everyone shows love in a different way
Grade school and junior high school was tough but I had to go through that to do what I do know and create the space I’ve created now.
Seeking to understand
How was I supported to follow the beat of my own drum?
Following my own beat and be supported. My mom would tell me to get a thicker skin
My parents did a great job of supporting me doing theater.
In College I was a dance minor to get exercise in through a means I would enjoy
I was encouraged to go after what I wanted, but also to grow a thicker skin.
We need to be able to take the armor off.
Not everyone deserves to see our vulnerable selves
Everything I produce for others is something I need to produce for myself too.
My grief journey is a part of the process. It has made me dig deeper into the process.
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