Very well said. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed and helpless in these times. Remembering the sacred in out bodies and the body of the earth and all her beings is not just important but essential. Thank you for your wisdom.
Oh My. This is beautifully said. I am so grateful for this reflection. Reading your post is an experience of settling and finding safety within my own body. Hear you about the sacred spaces within healthcare - like your doctor's office. I am an integrative psychotherapist - somatic experiencing etc, and have been holding such sacred space for over 20 years. Even after all this time, I still see every session as sacred. It's in these sessions that so much is revealed, held, embodied, witnessed, and "healed." You asked if the healthcare practitioners knew that they are holding sacred space. I have met so many - doctors, psychotherapists like me, nurses, OTs, PTs, body workers - who do. I believe your poetry and words do the same thing.
This means so much to me, thank you. There are plenty of medical/mental health/spiritual spaces that are not safe and don’t hold us like this, so creating spaces that do matter so much, thank you for what you do and how you hold it ♥️♥️
I was at my OB/GYN today. How timely I should come here and read this. I went through an event last year, and my provider simply asked me, "Tell me your story." How beautiful was that? You are so right. That office and the stories we tell there. I'm a labor and delivery nurse and exist in these sacred spaces with women. With families. I appreciate the reminder you offer to me as a provider. To keep these spaces sacred. Someone a log time ago used that word to describe them. It is a beautiful word. Thank you.
This is incredibly beautiful, Kaitlin. Honest, hopeful, loving and true. I love how you describe the beauty of sacred spaces and places, and how we can help create them no matter where we are. You create a sacred space here in your journal, and I am grateful.
I felt this essay in my body. Having spent so many days, weeks, months, years in medical spaces that did not feel safe or sacred, you reminded me of the humanity and divinity that we can find there, too. Thank you for sharing this gift.
Thanks for this post. I used to see peacocks every day when I worked in a certain part of the San Gabriel Valley. The title of your NYU event encourages me to keep working on my musical adaptation of Marla Taviano's unbelieve, which opens with a song called The Light of Doubt inspired by the book's dedication to Rachel Held Evans.
Very well said. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed and helpless in these times. Remembering the sacred in out bodies and the body of the earth and all her beings is not just important but essential. Thank you for your wisdom.
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Oh My. This is beautifully said. I am so grateful for this reflection. Reading your post is an experience of settling and finding safety within my own body. Hear you about the sacred spaces within healthcare - like your doctor's office. I am an integrative psychotherapist - somatic experiencing etc, and have been holding such sacred space for over 20 years. Even after all this time, I still see every session as sacred. It's in these sessions that so much is revealed, held, embodied, witnessed, and "healed." You asked if the healthcare practitioners knew that they are holding sacred space. I have met so many - doctors, psychotherapists like me, nurses, OTs, PTs, body workers - who do. I believe your poetry and words do the same thing.
This means so much to me, thank you. There are plenty of medical/mental health/spiritual spaces that are not safe and don’t hold us like this, so creating spaces that do matter so much, thank you for what you do and how you hold it ♥️♥️
Your work is exquisite, Kaitlin. This reminds me that I need to say this more often to the people whose work and presence I deeply appreciate!
Ohh and you are so so right on - medical/healthcare trauma is a huuuuge thing and much of it is preventable. Sending you such blessings, Kaitlin.
I'm finding it very difficult to find sacredness when I'm so angry and hurt for all our brothers and sisters. 🤬
I was just writing about our holy divinity today. Thank you for sharing this. I loved how deeply it spoke to my soul.
I was at my OB/GYN today. How timely I should come here and read this. I went through an event last year, and my provider simply asked me, "Tell me your story." How beautiful was that? You are so right. That office and the stories we tell there. I'm a labor and delivery nurse and exist in these sacred spaces with women. With families. I appreciate the reminder you offer to me as a provider. To keep these spaces sacred. Someone a log time ago used that word to describe them. It is a beautiful word. Thank you.
This is incredibly beautiful, Kaitlin. Honest, hopeful, loving and true. I love how you describe the beauty of sacred spaces and places, and how we can help create them no matter where we are. You create a sacred space here in your journal, and I am grateful.
I felt this essay in my body. Having spent so many days, weeks, months, years in medical spaces that did not feel safe or sacred, you reminded me of the humanity and divinity that we can find there, too. Thank you for sharing this gift.
Thanks for this post. I used to see peacocks every day when I worked in a certain part of the San Gabriel Valley. The title of your NYU event encourages me to keep working on my musical adaptation of Marla Taviano's unbelieve, which opens with a song called The Light of Doubt inspired by the book's dedication to Rachel Held Evans.
Your words, the wisdom and grace within them came flowing like balm on a wound. The wound of the world in which we now find ourselves.
"How we touch and care for the stuff of the body is how we touch and care for the divine."
"And it is up to us [to me] to create those spaces for others."
Thank you.
Your writings are what I look forward to…. Thank you for the tears 🥺
…. I need this …. So so much…
To remember, to breathe, to “calm down” and not let my blood pressure rise….Together…. ❤️💪🏼