The Stories We tell

We are surrounded by stories, and I believe it matters which ones we choose to listen to and agree with. Some stories can be louder than they have a right to be, and others are barely heard even when they are speaking for our truest self. Some stories will only get louder until we stop and truly listen.

We are storied creatures constantly telling, creating and listening for them to help guide and ground us - often to help make sense of moments that were too big for us to hold. Stories can illuminate the ways we have been trapped and isolated by our experiences of others and ourselves. Stories of harm can loop so even when we are out of the moment of pain we continue to live as though we aren’t. Sometimes stories are passed down from ancestors or caregivers. Some we feel strongly about and some are so “normal” we don’t notice they are a part of us. Cultural, historical and family stories need to be told from an embodied place so they no longer run the narrative for us. Our bodies and hearts carry stories and sometimes they become so ingrained we forget they are in an active state of retelling.

We are relational creatures. We have a deep need to be seen and heard. We experience harm in relationship, and through relationship we will find repair. Just as La Loba sang to the bones to remind them of their life, we all need help to be sung back to our belonging, to be rebound to our embodied spirit.

I want to help you gather the stories of your life - especially the forgotten and hard stories - to help you illuminate the parts of yourself that need to be heard, the parts that are stuck in loops, and the parts that are ready to run free.