In every physical space, we prioritize relieving environmental toxic load.

The lower the toxic load, the lower the instance of any other kind of problem.

The lower the toxic load, the greater our success in easily addressing any given challenge.

People intersectionalized by violence may repeat something they don't want to happen... until their community is able to support them to repair their verbal neurology, to allow them to repeat something they would more prefer to repeat.

They may repeat this in words, or in experiences, or in their actions.

It is a request for the repair of community neurology that would allow the circumstance to change.

When we interpret it as such, we can help one another reestablish safety and stability immediately.

We do this through awareness and support of inclusive communications and the every day, kindness oriented conversations needed to sort out our individual circuitry.

Sometimes it is important to move through the healing of trauma at one pace or another. Often the pace needed by the healing organism is a pace based on the kind of communication that most benefits the community and the environment, as well as the organism themselves.

A particular pace of healing, a particular pace of language shifting, is necessary in order to communicate specific things about the process of healing and whatever preceded it.

When we honor the expressions and lived experiences of the individuals in our communities, we are interested in what is meant when they express themselves in certain ways.

If they express themselves in words and other expressions that seem to evoke horror, this is something we want to be interested in because it is something they are transmuting for the community through their experience.

When we are present with one another through these experiences, what we transmute becomes medicine for the individual and the community.

We experience together how experiences and expressions of horror change fundamentally into understanding and nourishment when we bring our caring and willing learning to them.

Is learning this way better than asking the individual to change and then teach us from a place of greater privilege?

Does learning this way offer a means of respecting people in a wider variety of different circumstances, so that no individual need be abandoned?

If yes, it is as simple as being willing to learn about someone else and respectfully bridge our languaging.

Resistance Radio w/ John & Regan - 2/4/21

2/4/21 by John Kane & Regan de Loggans

https://resistanceradiowithjohnandregan.podbean.com/e/resistance-radio-with-john-and-regan-2421-russian-crackdown-on-protestors-looks-familiar

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/118780548
Episode: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/mcvn5u/RRPOD_02_04_21.mp3

The mainstream media and US officials are condemning Russia for its crackdown on protestors but it doesn't look much different that what BLM and NODAPL protestors experienced. Perhaps the US should take and hard look and see themselves in what they are condemning.

Respect for horses a path to healing at recovery ranch

4/3/20 by John O'Brien

https://www.kuow.org/stories/respect-for-horses-a-path-to-healing-at-recovery-ranch

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/100922673
Episode: https://universityofwashington.mc.tritondigital.com/SPEAKERS_FORUM_P/media/b396dc5b7e76ef260dcb9d8dc46f2b78.mp3

Equine animals have roamed the earth for over 40 million years. Homo sapiens, a scant 300 thousand. The image of power, pride, and soulfulness horses represent has deep meaning. They hold a unique place in our history, stories and myths. Yet, it has only been 6 thousand years since we began domesticating them. How they think and behave is still a legendary mystery to us. Most of us. Ginger Gaffney is a respected horse trainer, and the author of Half Broke: A Memoir. It’s the story of her time working with horses and residents at an alternative prison facility-- a New Mexico ranch run by the Delancey Street Foundation. Gaffney says she is shy: “I grew up an extreme introvert, and like many introverts, I felt an early comfort and kinship with animals. As far back as I can remember the language of movement has been my native language. Whether I am in a round pen or a crowded room, I’m scanning the intimacies of bodily movement.” Here, she tells the story of “the most dangerous horse situation I had ever encountered” and the chance at redemption the ranch embodies. The story of what the people and horses who find themselves at this ranch can achieve serves as a remarkable lesson of recovery. Gaffney was joined by former Delancey Street resident Ayla Jarvis. Ginger Gaffney and Ayla Jarvis spoke at the Seattle Public Library Central Library on February 25. Elliott Bay Book Company co-presented the event. KUOW’s Sonya Harris provided our recording. Please note: This recording contains brief language of an adult nature.