This is about how embodiment therapies can be one size fits all and lack a neurodiversity lens, thereby pathologizing nd traits as trauma. Yes this includes polyvagal theory and most of the other faves.
Sometimes I don't know how to drive this meatmobile. That sounds like a disconnected thing to say Embodiment therapies want us to be IN our bodies more fully. They consider that if you're not it's bc of trauma. But I think there are different ways that ppl get born Where the place of your spirit is more or less positioned in the body Or positioned Differently. My spirit is not always positioned in this body's pelvis, in this body's fingers My spirit is seated farther back at the intersection of embodiment and ethereality At the intersection of Spirit and Enspirited Materiality At the nexus of the figure 8 so I can loop out in either direction Like a tooth loose in it's moorings I can wiggle free Shrug off the "mortal coil" at times But as a result, I'm not all the way here much of the time So to drive this body, it feels like my hands are behind my hands moving them with puppet sticks Always kind of behind everyone else My eyes blink a second late, I'm told I'm awkward, my legs feel thick and clumpy Through embodiment work I learned to be more in my body It is good! I still see the body as gorgeous, intelligent, secret, subtle and overt, a warrior in it's continuous striving to synch with the cycles and seasons, to resonate with the land Despite all we have done to it All the ways we have maligned and rejected it, treated it as discarded meat scraps not good enough for our refined minds Yes I love the body, I'm forever grateful To those teachers and healers who have guided me into the sacred creation mysteries, The nebulae of the pelvic bowl and the ancient scrolls within the hollow bones preserved for centuries Yes I love I am in awe of The body But I am not always in it and that's how I was made Some of us are positioned Differently in our bodies Further back and nestled into the crux of the between Forever stationed at the crossroads, we can come to you but we travel longer We can come to the Angel lands The Elven lands And our path there is shorter and so Familiar This is not wrong This is not necessarily from harm Although some say that trauma is an initiation that lays open a path to power Sometimes yes and sometimes It's just sad and pointless Some of us are born positioned Differently in relation to our bodies Our seat is too far from the steering wheel and it gets stuck that way So we have to reach far to be able to drive Stretch out legs to reach the pedals And it's uncomfortable. Respect those of us who were made this way We are not doing it wrong we have a different role to play We must turn from awareness from movement more often as others do in sleep And that's ok Sometimes this is trauma and sometimes diversity We might need care for our bodies when Our role is to travel outside them We might need help Driving the Meatmobile What we give what we bring back is worth so much Mystics and poets are but a few of the known roles that we, the conditionally embodied play. Please don't pathologize us unless we agree that this is indeed pathological For some of us this is a sacred path made terrible only by the way we're continually told we perform humanness badly We are bad body-drivers, mind drivers They don't see the way we walk barefoot making tracks amoungst the stars And how brilliantly suited we are to do so.
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Anna Persson
3/20/2022 12:07:32 am
Thank you for writing about it. It means a lot to me! Love Anna, Sweden
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2/28/2023 05:26:48 pm
Hi. I did not ever see this till now, so sorry! Thankyou! Please feel free to stay in touch via FB or IG. Amber Naali Katzirah on fb and @neuroqueer_wildkat on IG
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