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2022 Recap!
I did a 2021 recap last year and was really encouraged by it, so I’m doing another one this year! I have issues with object permanence and it’s easy for me to feel like I’ve done NOTHING, so looking back and writing up the major things that happened and the things that I accomplished is really helpful for me to realize that I did, in fact, DO THINGS!
I created this to help myself realize that I am accomplishing things all the time even though I feel like I haven’t. I did NOT create this to make you feel like you need to compete with me or for you to compare yourself to me. The last thing I want is to make someone else feel bad about themself. Everyone’s life and journey is different, and we are ALL VALID whether or not we accomplished ANYTHING AT ALL. ♥
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- Journaled every day (I started this Jan 20th 2020 – almost on year 3!)
- Energy practices (almost) every day
- Took many walks outside + at parks
- Spent time w friends
- 8 tattoo appointments – so much closer to being done with this massive project!
- Went to Floyd Yoga Jam
- Visited a friend in Boone
- Got covid in August for the first (and hopefully only) time
- Visited AD in DC x2
- Solo van camping trip to Shenandoah
- Solo van camping in Hocking Hills
- Got STI tested in Feb, May, + Dec
- Went to an Art Walk in my hometown
- Went to friends + familys bday parties
- Went to a family reunion in VA for my dad’s side of the family
- Got a new passport with my name change and X gender marker!
- Volunteered at the VAPA Center
- Dyed my pubic hair blue x2
- Spent over $2500 on van repairs (oil changes, inspection, window motor, fuel line, tires…)
- Mountain trip with Abe at airbnb + mushroom experience
- 3x mushroom trips + microdosed several times
- Helped set up and break down Sol Harmony Fest, my first time seeing behind the scenes of how a festival comes to life!
- Housesit for my aunt while she’s out of town x2
- Asheville trip w Abe (surprise trip that last minute changed but was still super fun)
- Mountainpalooza with 15 of my high school friends! (year 4 and counting!)
- Stayed w Granny for a week to help her out after she was in the hospital w pneumonia
- Hosted a model + her partner, first time hosting in several years – since 2017/18?
- Van camped w friends 5 different times
- First group van camping experience! 13 people and 4 dogs in a mountain forest
- Went to 2 bonfires with friends
- Abe and I made a Duct Tape Dummy of myself
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- AD tied + suspended me for the first time in years, my first suspension since my rope injury in 2016, first time at The Crucible
- Got back into the local kink scene + started going to play parties
- Got myself a doggie crate for my bedroom, for claustrophilia reasons, also for putting myself in time out reasons, and kink reasons lol
- Did my first self suspension in rope
- Went to PUSH – a fetish party in Durham
- Went to 4 kink parties
- Went to 5 rope labs
- Had 3 rope mentoring sessions (so far)
- Shared 37 videos on my website (check them out in my video directory)
- Stripe, the payment processor for my website, closed my account in August (while I had covid! It was a rough week) – I lost ⅔ of my income overnight because Stripe hates nudity
- I’m back on Patreon as of September!!!
- Shared 43 posts on Patreon since I came back
- Applied to a residency at Shenandoah National Park (I didn’t get it)
- Redid the resources page on my website
- Created The Burrow on Discord
- Interviewed 3 times
- Mentored an LGBTQIA+ artist
- Helped out at the camera store x13 days
- Facilitated 4 peer support + mentoring sessions (I loved these and want to do more!)
- Facilitated 39 queer creative coworking sessions most Wednesdays from Jan-Dec
- Facilitated 5 Discord coworking sessions
- Facilitated 2 virtual nude gatherings
- Facilitated 3 movie screenings on Discord
- Facilitated 3 art share events on Discord
- Facilitated 6 Burrow Buddies hangouts on Discord
- Facilitated an asexuality discussion on Discord
- Facilitated Conscious Creativity 2 day self portrait workshop in Michigan with GBTL (excited to be doing it again in August!!!)
- Facilitated Love Fest (virtual) with GBTL
- Facilitated Figure Modeling 101 virtual workshop
- Facilitated Self Portraiture for Self Discovery and Connection workshop at Sol Harmony Fest
- Co-facilitated The Wake Up energy practice with my mom x3 at Sol Harmony Fest
- Participated in 7 meetings for Sol Harmony Fest
- Posed for 11 in person figure modeling sessions for 5 different art groups
- Solo Pop Up Exhibition “We Are Interconnected” at VAPA Center in Charlotte
- “Free For All” group exhibition at Hart Witzen Gallery in Charlotte
- Began co-leading QC Kinky Photography group
- Got professional headshots done (thank you Scott Stallings + Fenix Fotography)
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- Anti-planning Workshop w Elizabeth Goddard
- Yoni Massage Workshop w Lior Allay
- Nude Yoga (virtual) w Lior Allay
- Feelings 101 w Dawn Serra
- Advanced Master Program on the Treatment of Trauma from NICABM (5 part master class)
- How to Build Your Business Without Social Media w Becca Tracey
- Thai Massage Workshop w Ann Marie
- Balls + Yoga w Ann Marie
- Glow Yoga w Meridith Young
- Laughter Yoga w Carolyn Keller Sells
- Plant ID Walk – Know Your Weeds w I-TAL Acres
- Psychedelic Breathwork w Monica McGee + Kendall Selfe
- Ecstatic Dance w Katie Wells + Beatfarm3r
- Howdy! Partner Yoga w Shawn + Marie Nuthall
- Energy Medicine Yoga w Nicole Lafon
- Nature Walk – Plants, Food, + Fire w Johnny Stowe
- Defying Gravity: Acroyoga FUNdamentals w Kaelyn Rogers
- Intuitive Movement w Claire Nagy-Kato
- Teas Tonics + Tinctures w Willow Luna (my mom!)
- Psychedelic Integration w Anjali Valea
- Chakti Yoga w Lauren Nixon
- Rhythm + Flow Yoga w Amber + Jimi Nedoff
- Learned a suspendable futomomo and uplines (thanks AD)
- Found a local rope mentor + started recurring meetings to learn rope bondage
- Aftercare is a “bad word” w Zir Oya aka @mount.saintoya via Shibari Study
- Rope Has an Image Problem w Christian Red via Shibari Study
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Sisters of the Earth: Women’s Prose and Poetry about Nature by Lorraine Anderson
- The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings
Check out the organized list of HUNDREDS of books I want to read!
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Mushroom Messages
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CAPTION FOR THE VIDEO ABOVE:
Hello, this is going to be one of my most personal vlogs, probably… probably one of the most personal ones I’ve ever shared. So I just wanted to start with that to let you know how important it is to me. I haven’t shared this with y’all before, but I thought now would be a good time and I might cry. Just to give you a heads up.
So today I’m going to share mushroom messages with you. I had the most spiritual experience of my life (so far) on November 7th of 2020. And I took mushrooms, psilocybin mushrooms, and then I spent the whole day in the forest in the mountains next to a river. And it was so powerful for me and I did a lot of things while I was there, but some of the more noteworthy things that I did was, I journaled a lot and I also made a video but I don’t think I’m going to share the video. I haven’t even watched it. I’m not sure that one’s a little like extra tender, but I read, I read this journal entry from while I was on mushrooms, a couple days ago, and I definitely cried reading it like just reading it to myself to be like, “do I want to share this?” So I might cry reading it just to give you a heads-up, but it’s really powerful and important to me and I hope you enjoy it. Yeah, it’s really like hopeful and heart centered in my opinion. So I’m just going to, I’m just going to start and I’m probably not going to do a fancy ending either. I’m probably just going to read it and stop the video. So yeah, here we go.
We are so interconnected and society sometimes makes it easy to forget. I’m here to help us remember. I’m fully into feeling these lovely, wonderful comforting mushrooms that remind me over and over again, that I’m here for a reason and that we are all here for a reason and that is to remember each other as ourselves, ourselves as each other, and that we are all here to love one another.
I pulled three cards and of course, the first one I got was waterfall, effortless. Of course, the universe would remind me that it’s effortless for the universe to do anything that it wants to. The second card I got was Milky Way perspective because of course the universe is cheeky and wants to remind me that it always knows what’s going on whether or not I do or anyone does. It’s not important to know everything. The holder of the knowing of all there is of everything there is to know is spirit itself. And who are we to question it or think we have the answers? There are only questions and are the answers really even important? Living and being in service to life, are the true answers to everything. And anything else is just trying to sell you something. The third card I pulled was, of course, Forest breath because we are nothing without that which allows us to live. Breathing is our Sovereign right in our divine connection to all that is living on this planet. Where we choose to honor with our breath is sacred simply because we choose it. The intention of our lives is living through our breath at every moment, whether we consciously realize it or not.
I want to consciously choose to imbue every breath with life and love because we all are nourished by each other by being alive. I want my life to be so full of love that it ripples out around me and infects everyone I come into contact with. I want to nurture and nourish the Earth with my love because I know that at every moment, it is teeming with life and love for me. I want the boundaries of where I began and the world ends to disappear with every breath I take because I’m the world and the world is me and I’m sorry for ever forgetting that fact.
With every breath I take, I choose to remember that the boundaries that keep us separate are really all made up. With every breath, I choose to remember the abundance of love and life that is around me every moment simply because I exist. I’m alive. I’m breathing. I’m important. I am needed. I’m a sacred piece of the tapestry of life that extends forever into the past and the future. We are here for each other. We need each other. We are each other. We cannot ever be separated because we are a sacred part of one another. The River of Life flows Forever on the banks of our love. Nothing can ever tear us apart. Spirit and matter love each other so deeply that they choose to forever dance together and every possible combination of life and love just so that they can always be together, no matter what. Thank you. I love you.
Every breath, every moment is love living through me. The fact that we are alive means that we are loved. Life wants to live. Love wants to love and be loved. Life is the love that the Universe gives us every moment. Living is a gift that we are given. I choose to spread love. I choose to make my life about love. I choose love. I choose life. Life and love are expressions of the gift that is forever being given to us at every moment. I choose to breathe life and love into every moment.
This Breath of Life and Love isn’t only mine, it is the same breath that every being past present and future breathes. We all breathe together and life and love. Time doesn’t matter when our hearts are connected. The Earth is my heart, that forever supports and loves me. I’m the heart of the Earth. We are one another. We are each other. Language can’t hold the vast expanses of the reality of my love for myself and each other and the Earth. There’s nothing that will ever break us apart. My heart is the earth. The earth is my heart. I am my heart. I am the earth. I am forever. I am love. Every breath is an expression of my love for myself, which is really also my love of you and the Earth, and my existence is love. I keep seeing tiny chipmunks scurrying around in the woods around me. I think it’s time for me to simply exist within nature. My existence is love.
It’s like every time I read it it brings me back and I feel… I feel all over again. The like heart open.
I love you.
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