Somatic practices have led me to a life changing reduction in chronic pain and fatigue. Before I found Radical Undoing I found it hard to function, all I could do was work part time in a job I was falling out of love with, and bed rest. Then I lost the job. (1/6)
These practices may or may not lessen your chronic pain. I can be more confident in their usefulness for navigating the world and facing reality wherever you're at. Less mental suffering, being able to listen to all that your life and body, including pain, has to tell you.(6/6)
Somatic practices have led me to a life changing reduction in chronic pain and fatigue. Before I found Radical Undoing I found it hard to function, all I could do was work part time in a job I was falling out of love with, and bed rest. Then I lost the job. (1/6)
When we talk about healthy places, I can’t impress upon you enough that playful spaces are healthy, for mind, body, imagination, connection & cohesion. Especially if you really think hard about equity & inclusion, agency & deepening participation.
It’s not just about ‘mobility’
"Disabled creatives need consistent ongoing support - not just one-off opportunities."
A thread of key findings from Always the Audience (Never the Star) by Dr. Jessi Parrott (@messijessijumps) and Jamie Hale (@jamierhale) 👇
#AlwaysTheAudience will be released on Wednesday.
“Trauma is stored in the hips” is so ironic to me because so many cultures incorporated various hip movements into dance, but then Europeans slut-shamed and sexualised them, making them more vulnerable to sexual trauma. And demonised their healing.
I still find the paradox of, one or two big movements of money would make all the people in ambitious projects much more well because they just doing the work and not in the hell of fundraising in drips, but we keep talking about wellbeing. It’s just literally get off the money that’s it.
I think about this sometimes. When I was studying interior architecture an ex used to say that she wished thing could be created from the mind without drawing, but I knew how much development happened in the layers of abstraction and unabstraction. Things are made in process.
I worry about people who rely on AI and how it deskills certain skills, nuance and rigour that are only gained through practice & needed for mobilising and strategic movement & coalition building. I’m here for life being made easier but not for where it pacifies & disarms us