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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)
I was only able to accomplish these things because of the support from members of my patreon, thank you so much!
- 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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Why I Don’t Call Myself a Nudist
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CAPTION FOR THE VIDEO ABOVE:
Hi. Okay. This video will be a little more serious. And yeah, let’s dive in. Okay, I have had a bunch of people call me a nudist, and I have never personally used that label for myself. And this video is going to be about why I don’t use nudist as a label for myself, personally. I don’t have anything against nudists. I’ve just noticed a familiar pattern with a lot of them. That I think is kind of not so great. And yeah, so let’s talk about it.
So the first reason I don’t call myself a nudist is because people have forced that label on me enough that I’m just kind of refusing to use it because people just assume that I am and it makes me really annoyed. And I want to push back against it and say I’m not. So non-consensual labeling of me as a nudist is one of the reasons that I don’t call myself a nudist.
Also, there’s kind of an assumption with nudist that they are always naked and never want to wear clothes, or like hate clothes. Clothes are useful and helpful sometimes so, like, I don’t hate them. Also, they’re fun for expression and stuff. So, yeah, I don’t hate clothes and I also wear them sometimes. One of the big reasons why I don’t call myself a nudist is because the nudist community seems to be pretty exclusionary and gatekeeping if I’m honest. Most of the nudist people that I’ve met or know about are cishet white men, that are usually older than me. A lot of them are like maybe Boomer age and they have money, and they have a lot of the same ideas about what nudity should be and like, how nudists should be, and it seems like a lot of them kind of hate on tattoos and body modifications and say that it’s like “violating the sanctity of the skin” or whatever, but that that doesn’t fly with me.
A lot of the nudist spaces like nude retreats and nude resorts and stuff, a lot of them you have to have money to be able to be there. So that automatically excludes like a fuck ton of people. Obviously, like everyone has bills to pay and sometimes doing something for free is not the best idea, but if nudism is about including everyone and everyone being equal and just naked. Why is it that most nudist places are full of cishet white men that have money? That’s my question. Something about those nude spaces makes it so that people that are not cishet white men don’t feel comfortable there or don’t have access to those places.
So yeah, I am not a nudist. I don’t expect other people to be naked around me. I don’t hate clothes. I’m not always naked and I just I don’t want to be associated with a community of people that have been pretty gatekeepy from my experience. So yeah, that’s why I don’t call myself a nudist. I’m just me and I’m just naked a lot. I’d say that my nudity is more a part of my ecosexuality and like neurodivergence than anything else. I just, being naked as comfortable. I like it. There’s not that much else to it. Like it can have a lot of meaning and depth behind it. But like honestly it doesn’t have to. I can just like being naked and not be a nudist. That’s how I feel.
Okay. Yeah, if you have any questions about nudity or anything that I’ve posted in the last few years like anything I’ve talked about. If you have any questions for me, please comment below or answer my survey. I’ll put the link below, or send me an email. I would love to hear from you. I’m making these videos based on what people have been asking me. So I would love to hear your thoughts because then maybe I can make a video about what you’re wondering about. Okay. Thank you for being here. I love you so much, and I will see you soon!
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2021 Recap!
I enjoy looking back + seeing all the progress I’ve made over the year. It helps me realize that I did in fact actually do things + work toward my goals.
Sometimes my brain likes to tell me that I’ve done NOTHING + gotten NOTHING accomplished, that I’ve wasted the whole year.
Does your brain do that to you too?
Maybe looking back through your year to see all that you’ve done will benefit you too!
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- Took lots of walks at parks
- Hiked in the mountains as much as possible
- Helped my sister Gemini move
- Reconnected with AD
- Went to a wedding
- Made new friends
- Cried a lot
- Had some of the most painful menstrual cramps of my life
- Visited/traveled to:
- Durham/Raleigh NC
- NC mountains
- DC
- PA
- Cleveland OH
- Microdosed mushrooms a few times
- Took a voice lesson
- Saw the Van Gogh immersive exhibit
- Learned about my ancestry
- Got tested for STIs
- Learned about my HSV1+ status
- Helped out at the local camera store
- Went to the mountains with my dads side of the family
- Got vaccinated
- Finalized my name change!!! I am SO excited about this!
- Tattoo appointment almost every month (finished outlining + started color… vlog post about all this coming soon!)
- Went camping with a friend
- Journaled every day
- Did energy practices almost every day
Let me know what you’d like to see from me in 2022 by responding to my survey!
- Redid/updated my website
- Created a welcome automation for my newsletter
- Taught Self Portraits for Self Discovery + Connection workshop for The Light Factory
- Created Self Portraiture for Self Discovery + Connection ebook + Inspiration + Planning workbook
- Created + shared Queer Nature slideshow
- Applied for a residency + didn’t get it (practice failing to get closer to accomplishing!)
- Facilitated peer support sessions
- Quit social media!!! Thank you Leonie Dawson for helping me feel like this was even possible!
- Filmed for Nudism.TV (with my family!) for 4 days
- Worked on meditations with Jenna + Lior
- Photoshoots:
- Facilitated virtual nude gatherings: March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October (total of 8 gatherings)
- Facilitated a first look at self portraits members only event
I was only able to accomplish these things because of the support from members of my website, thank you so much!
- Became an LLC
- Got a business bank account
- GBTL events: Jan, Feb x2, March x2, April x2, May x3, June x2, July, August, September (total of 15 events!!!)
- GBTL met up in person to create + facilitate backstage pass
- Many many meetings + video chats + text messages behind the scenes
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- Explore More Summit 2020
- Sales Star with Leonie Dawson
- Marketing Without Social Media with Leonie Dawson
- Black Friday Training with Elizabeth Goddard
- Intersex Period Pandel Discussion with Crystal Hendricks, Mari Wrobi, Nick Manchester, Yezenia León Mezu, + Sean Saifa Wall
- Identity + Representation Panel Discussion with Roarie Yum, Jade Wilson, Paige Wilson, Deitric Robsinon-Miller, Kiah Glenn, + John Robinson-Miller IV
- Breathwork For Aliveness with Jennifer Patterson
- Emotion Mapping with Dawn Serra
- Boundaries Class with Luna Dietrich
- Live Your F*ck Yes Life Summit (non monogamy + polyamory) with Amanda Katherine Loy, Chad Spangler/polyamfam, Leanne Yau/polyphiliablog, Ebony/Marjani Lane, + Jess Levity/remodeledlove
- Women Race + Class by Angela Davis
- The Language of Emotions by Karla McLaren
- We Will Not Cancel Us by adrienne maree brown
- Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
- My Grandmothers Hands by Resmaa Menakem
- I Hope We Choose Love by Kai Cheng Thom
- Evolution’s Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden
- Rebloom by Rachael Maddox
- Seven Thousand Ways to Listen by Mark Nepo
- Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
Check out the organized list of HUNDREDS of books I want to read!
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❓respond to my survey + help me create what you want to seeshow your support financially (sliding scale!):
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💰 buy me lunch via venmo✨ THANK YOU MEMBERS FOR MAKING THIS POSSIBLE!!! ✨
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