New Year's Revolution

The power of letting natural cycles do what they do

For the last few weeks, I have been in deep grieving.

I have been letting that grief move through me. I have been sitting with it.

I have been participating in family holiday functions while grieving. I have found joy in places that I usually find it. I have remained present to my experience and present to those around me.

I have not shut off, but I have slowed down.

Slowing down, if you have the privilege of being able to do so, is one of your most powerful weapons against oppression.

If you are a working class person and not part of the billionaire class, then you are oppressed. The whole point of hustle culture, grind culture, and busyness culture is so that you don’t slow down long enough for your intuition and the universe to guide you in the direction that you need to go to get free.

The whole point of keeping people poor, broke, and one health crisis away from bankruptcy is so they can’t slow down to get free.

Our oppressors don’t want us to be free. They want us to be trapped in the world that they created so that they can continue enriching themselves by siphoning the life out of us. Power and domination are their entire personality.

I am thankful to have the privilege of being able to slow down. I found my way to freedom little by little over the last several years. I’m now able to slow down in ways that I wasn’t able to before. I don’t have to be in survival mode anymore.

My next chapter of getting free involves helping us all get free. Over time, I will be sharing my survivor story and connecting it back to the systems that oppress us. These systems are designed to protect abusers.

Thankfully, my abuser can’t hurt me anymore. I am no longer in danger the way I once was. I escaped the cycle of violence and have the resources and safety to tell the tale.

This world is built to protect abusers and stifle survivors and keep them in survival mode. Oppressors do their absolute best to maintain that power at any cost. And some of us manage to hang in there long enough to escape physically, mentally, and spiritually.

I hope the people who need to be able to see themselves in the stories that I share can do so. I hope the people who can’t see themselves in the stories that I share can at least understand how violent our systems are, even if they haven’t been directly affected by it the way that I have.

This will be my next contribution of getting us all free and coming after the motherfuckers who did this to me.

Happy New Year.