Reaching Back, Reaching Forward
JOURNALLING PROMPTS
Whose hands are behind you?
Find a pen and paper.
Give yourself twenty minutes without interruption.
Let the writing go wherever it goes.
Give yourself twenty minutes without interruption.
Let the writing go wherever it goes.
Name a woman in your lineage
— known or unknown — who refused to become less than herself.
— known or unknown — who refused to become less than herself.
- What do you know, or sense, about who she was?
- What did that refusal cost her?
- And what did it give her?
- What does it give you?
Closing note
You do not need to know her name. You do not need to have met her.
That she passed to you does not require her presence to be real.
You do not need to know her name. You do not need to have met her.
That she passed to you does not require her presence to be real.
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A RITUAL
This takes five minutes. It asks everything of those five minutes.
Light a candle.
Speak her name aloud.
Say what she survived.
Say what she refused.
Say what she passed to you.
Sit with the flame until you feel the thread between you.
Speak her name aloud.
Say what she survived.
Say what she refused.
Say what she passed to you.
Sit with the flame until you feel the thread between you.
Closing note
There are no wrong words here. There is only the speaking, and the flame, and the thread that has always been there.
There are no wrong words here. There is only the speaking, and the flame, and the thread that has always been there.
