Transforming the inner oppressor
If you’re feeling distress or helplessness about the increasing polarities in the wider world, read on for this month’s essay about how I worked with my own internalized ableism, sexism, and colonialism, and how doing so allowed me to resolve inner conflict and create more room for ease in relationship with self and other.
When we turn inside and bring curiosity and compassion to our parts, we can heal our inner struggles. But we also might find that our new spaciousness inside contributes to the dissolution of some of the tension outside us, too.
Perhaps we might even begin seeing others not as threats, but as collaborators in the human version of a murmuration.
befriending the fawn
Fascism requires a compliant population to take hold. This month’s blog is about getting to know my fawning, or compliant, part, and developing a relationship with it, so it no longer has to work so hard, allowing me to lead more often with courage and compassion.
When we befriend our fawning parts, we may find that our compulsion to blindly comply with authority out of fear begins to dissipate. We then become one fewer body through which fascism can spread. Our inner work expands outward from personal benefit into a contribution to a collective transformation of consciousness. We become, as they say, the change we want to see in the world. This is a kind of internal activism we all have access to, that can yield sustainable external change.
Parts and palestine
