Every day we are gifted with opportunities to choose truth with love. This is each individual's unique journey. Yet, most of us operate from autopilot for most of the day.

95% of our thoughts, feelings and behaviors is driven by our subconscious mind which forms its core programming in the first 7 years of life. It is a makeup of and continues to be influenced by: inherited DNA, environments that we grew up in, and traumas that we have experienced (individually and collectively). We are designed for survival and internalize what is modeled before us. We either repeat the patterns that we witness or work to enact the exact opposite.

Yet, we have the gift of conscious choice in each moment to choose to live intentionally. With awareness, we have the power to craft the exact life we want to live. We get to decide what we take on and what we pass on to descendants of generations to come.

In order to live consciously and rewrite behavioral patterns in our body, we can restoring our inner life force Shakti energy that has been purposefully repressed for centuries through ongoing white-supremacist-patriarchal-colonization (aka empire). Somatic parts integration work done within a therapeutic relationship is SO powerful for this! As well as yoga, reiki, kundalini, tantra, inner child healing, authentic expression, hard conversations with people you trust and love you for you, etcetera - it is an infinite universe! Hence the journey of each individual navigating their correct ingredients for their unique path.

When we practice the power of expressing truth and being witnessed in Maitri compassion, we experience liberation. In liberating our own authentic truth, we liberate our entire ancestral lineage.

Every indigenous culture before colonization practiced right relation to oneself, the land, and one another. We each have the power to return to this right relation, liberate our authentic being, heal our ancestral lineage, and set up our descendants for success by choosing truth with love in conscious awareness.

We are all connected to indigenous ancestors and they are asking us to remember the sacred wisdom that is inherent to each of us. To remember our power. To untangle nervous systems and honor our rhythm. To re-belong to Earth, as Earth. To remember the village. Reviving matriarchal circles with children and the protection of life at the center, rotationally led with compassion and transparency. Cohesion amongst tribes. A trusted council of elders. Ritual and ceremony through initiatory rites of passage. A revival of the Sacred. A return to living in reverence for life through feeling and artfully expressing with community.

This is Shakti Maitri. Reclaiming our power, with compassion.