Hello, hello, my love. I hope this finds you doing exactly how you are doing. I hope this finds you in a place of self-compassion, self-care, self-love, self-trust, and acceptance of your perfect

nervous system, your magnificent inner children, in this moment.

I wanted to record something to connect with you about the overturning of Rovey Wade last week.

I want to also name that there was a voice in me that came up this morning and quite frankly every day this week that said,

you should record that thing. you should speak to your beautiful

amazing feminist people about what a blow this is for humanity for our bodily

autonomy our bodily autonomy,

bodily dignity, and especially to those communities most

marginalized by white settler colonialism, late stage capitalism and the patriarchy,

those living in identities oppressed by and marginalized by these systems,

by POC folks, queer folks, trans folks, low-income folks, disabled folks, fat folks.

And every day my nervous system said, not yet. Be with it, integrate it, sit with it. And there was

that voice in the back of my head that said, but Vic, come on, talk to the people, share the message.

And I honor that voice, that protector within me. It's just trying to get me to do

what it believes is right.

And now, having done all the work I've done, doing the work I do every day to honor myself,

I've chosen to listen to my nervous system that said not yet integrate

be with the feelings instead of hopping to talking about the feelings.

And here I am, having done so much somatic work

to get present to the complexity of feelings within me, I felt ready, feel ready to speak to you and to let you know that all the big feelings you are having are normal,

are natural, make sense, are an appropriate reaction

and response to living in this most challenging of moments. And if you're feeling numb, that's normal too. If you're

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