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I am here to love this world, to love it intellect

I am here to love this world, to love it intellectually with my brain, to love it softly/tenderly with my heart, to love it passionately with my gut.
I’m here to love, to love fiercely, to love with all the means accessible to me.
How much LOVE am I capable of?
How much love are we humans capable of? I ask this daily, then I go on loving this world.
To save this world we must love it passionately!
There is SO much magnificence in this life/world. So much deliciousness!
I’m here to suck the marrow of it all.
I’m here to live and to live abundantly.
I’m here to live love, to embody love, to teach love.
Empire has taken us away from love. This is the same love Jesus preached about. This is the same Empire Jesus was outraged at.
Love is the ultimate.
Love is all.
Image description: Maestra Mariela walks in the woods wearing a white dress; she smiles facing the camera, hands in her pockets. An older man is seen in the distance; he walked by her and said: “It looks like you just walked out of a poem.” This reminded me of the quote from Oscar Wilde “She lives the poetry that she cannot write.” #love #passion #poetry #nature #naturelovers

I hope you loves are making time for what makes yo

I hope you loves are making time for what makes your soul come out from its hiding place.
I’m thinking a lot about creativity (and soul loss and depression) these days; how when we are in The Underworld we loose touch with the things that give us joy, such as our creativity; how some artists will tell you that their creativity saved their lives; how some of us (in order to survive within this system) abandon what makes our soul sing, disconnecting from an essential part of our humanity; how many of us get to midlife withered within without knowing why; how soul loss happens and how we gain our souls back; how the loss of the human soul has led to the loss of the soul of the world (anima mundi), as we can so clearly see.
Empire will destroy everything that is beautiful, that is soft, that has heart; Empire destroys everything that is sacred and alive, such as the human heart and the human soul. Do not let them!
So, I hope you are making time, sweet loves, to remain human by cultivating beauty in whatever way makes sense to you; for me is often about color and sacred space, which I’m lucky to share with my daughter, friends, and soul clients these days.
Sending beauty your way 💐🤗😘
#soul #soulloss #depression #creativity

I love this familia. 🙂🙏🏾🤗 Greetings fr

I love this familia. 🙂🙏🏾🤗 Greetings from the heaven-like summers of the NY/Vermont area.
Sending our love to you
🌬🤍

Lulu and I are on our back home with a full full h

Lulu and I are on our back home with a full full heart; it was lovely being back in NC for a few days and seeing family, friends, and the community overall. I’m so sorry that I didn’t get to see more of you, but I promise we will return, and hopefully Dean can join us next time.
I also got to preach/teach in person for the first time since Covid, and I’ve missed that so much! 😭 Thank you for all of you who came this morning. I’m glad the message of love/the heart resonated; thank you for all the affirmation, love, and gifts; I wrote that sermon because I needed it; I wrote it because I wanted my daughter to hear it; I wrote it because we need hope these days when so many systems are collapsing and our hearts and psyches have been broken to pieces… until next time sweet loves.

Grateful for the blessings of being in community a

Grateful for the blessings of being in community and sharing in ceremony with beautiful BIPOC women today. 🙏🏾 This work is so nourishing. 🙏🏾

27 years ago I arrived in North Carolina as a poli

27 years ago I arrived in North Carolina as a political refugee, confused, feeling lost, displaced from my homeland. It took a while to get used to living here, but this land that my feet are touching today soon became my home, my mother. I felt so loved and nourished by this lush terrain, and I loved her back deeply. I loved her well! During the 20-some years I lived here I connected with her almost daily; I sucked the marrow out of living here, from the Outer Banks to the Blue Ridge mountains. What gorgeousness! What deliciousness! I’ve been back for 24 hours and I’m still in love. Oh, I’ve missed her! I’m being nourished again, and I’m so grateful 🙏🏾🌏 #motherearth #northcarolina

Soft love. I’m writing about (and feeling it in

Soft love. I’m writing about (and feeling it in my body), preparing for Sunday.
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What if the parts I don’t like about me (like the anxiety and the depression) are not illnesses to get rid of? What if they are very natural responses to the hostile environments I’ve found myself in?
What if they are messengers/teachers, telling me that something is out of alignment and needs to change?
What if I can listen to them with a soft body, with a soft heart, with softness in every cell of my being?
What if that soft love is the medicine I bring to those parts?
What if that soft love is part of the medicine I bring to this world?
—-
Hola from NC 👋🏽

Remember to feed your souls tonight beloveds. Don’t let them break your soul. #breakmysoul

SACRED RAGE! 🔥 The women in my circle and I (a

SACRED RAGE! 🔥
The women in my circle and I (as part of our healing journey) have been finding an ancient rage in our bodies; it’s a rage that scares us, but we have come to see it as sacred, as powerful, as transformative; it’s a fire that is needed now more than ever to overcome these oppressive systems created by men; systems that get in the way of everything we hold sacred: love, beauty, our bodies, our sexuality, our freedom granted by nature…
Let us be outraged together. I’m planning a Sacred Rage gathering soon for those in my community.
Also, I’m so in love with the goddess Kali. I don’t know how I lived for so long without her in my life; she teaches us that our rage over the injustices of these systems is not only sacred but absolutely necessary to stop the abuse of centuries against women and people who don’t fit their mold. #sacredrage #kali #fireelement #outraged #enoughisenough #roevwade

I’m so excited to be retuning “home” to Nort

I’m so excited to be retuning “home” to North Carolina to preach my first sermon in months, a sermon that I feel I was born to write (but I had to live it and feel in my body before I could write it.) I’ll be talking about our human nature, the developmental stages of childhood where our early imprinting and traumas occur, the systems of oppression that get in the way of our human nature, about Internal Family System, the most recent understanding of the nervous system and personality patterns, how to heal our psyches, and how to create trauma-informed communities and congregations. I’m excited!!! Also, we are planning a bubbles communion of sorts, a festivity afterwards, and more. It’s going to be pretty awesome! Hope to see some of you there!
Overall, I can’t wait to see my beloveds in North Carolina that week and to visit some of my sacred places in town and in those gorgeous mountains ⛰😘🤗

The outdoor sanctuary is ready. 🙏🏾🌳🌺✨

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Dear loves: I’ve been away for a little while a

Dear loves:
I’ve been away for a little while as I’ve been spending lots of time in nature, guiding others through their journeys of healing and liberation.
I continue to be alarmed and heartbroken by the the current state of the world, but here’s what I’ve always known and what I have recently found, theologically:
There is a BENEVOLENCE OF LIFE that is always available to us.
And there’s a community gathering around this belief.
We believe that humanity has lost faith in life, and that we have also lost faith in our own humanity.
• We believe that the epidemic of despair and existential depression plaguing our society are due in part to this loss of faith; it often feels that we are all alone, that there’s no rhyme or reason to life, that it’s all hopeless, that there’s nothing larger than us coming to help us; but this is false thinking, of course, from our philosophy/theology of universal love.
• At our core we believe that there is a benevolence, a loving force that moves through the world and through us, and we believe that this divine providence loves us unconditionally, (unconditionally!), and that that benevolence provided for our ancestors (and continues to provide for us) various sacraments for us to connect with it (with that divine love) and for us heal our wounds and bring more of that love into our families, communities, and the planet.
• We do this work for collective healing and liberation; we do it to heal the wounds that colonial, patriarchal systems have created in our nervous systems and in our society; we believe that these are dehumanizing systems, and so we do this ministry/sacred work to reclaim our humanity.
• We believe that when we heal we also claim our divine nature, our healthy human capacity, which is altruistic, like that benevolent source of Love that we all come from.
We provide safe and sacred containers
for people to access & connect with the Benevolence of Life,
that infinite source of Love in us and around us.

Michigan friends: I just finished a year-long prog

Michigan friends:
I just finished a year-long program that I want to highly recommend to you if you are a therapist, counselor, coach, or are looking for a healing modality that will truly transform your life and the lives of the people you serve/care for. The amount of healing that took place here (for me and for my beloved classmates) is hard to explain because it’s hard to comprehend; I didn’t think it was possible for this much transformation to happen in 8-9 months.
I am truly a different human after letting go of the psychological patterns I had developed to survive my hard 48 years of life (particularly my devastating childhood and coming to this country as a refugee); I’m a different Mariela after healing the traumas that were causing so much suffering and so many health issues; and above all, I now can embody love after feeling the LOVE, support, and radical acceptance of this beautiful community that is now like family to me.
I also have found so much peace, purpose, and hope in this work because I suffered so much in this lifetime, and because my ancestors suffered so so much for generations, and because my family and community continue to suffer, and because humanity continues to suffer, and because the planet continues to suffer (because of the suffering of humanity) but yes there’s hope in knowing that healing and wholeness is possible, that it’s possible to feel light and love in your body, in every cell of your being; this is our birthright. You were born soft and kind and beautiful, and you can return to feeling that way again. It’s THE most BEAUTIFUL feeling!
I’m grateful that I have learned this for myself, my family, and my community. And I’m honored and humbled that I get to teach this to others so they too can feel love and light within, and then they can spread that to their families and communities. This is how we heal the world, from within. This is how we return to the love and light we are, by embodying love and light.
May it be so. Amen and Aché. @thevitalistinstitute

Reconnecting with Joy as a spiritual practice and

Reconnecting with Joy as a spiritual practice and as a political act against systems of oppression that take so much of our energy and wellbeing from us. #sunnyday #sunworshipper #sun #fireelement #healingjourney #pleasure #joy

What a joy to come home today to this deliciousnes

What a joy to come home today to this deliciousness waiting for me, what a blessing, what love, what beauty…
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🌸🌸🌸

Sending radiant love your way! 💛☀️ And some

Sending radiant love your way! 💛☀️
And some deliciousness too 😋

Meditation has been such an important part of my h

Meditation has been such an important part of my healing journey. I had tried meditation for years/decades knowing how good it is for us, but being Cuban I was born hot-blooded and had so much energy in my body, it was painful to sit still for extended periods of time, ah, but the deliciousness of that is deeply healing to the nervous system. I love my energy, my fire 🔥 my sunshine ☀️ but the peace and ease, the soft love that I get from meditation 🧘🏽‍♀️is something I cherish deeply and will never leave me. #meditation #healingjourney #healingwithnature

Spring is here! Llego la primavera. Sweetness! S

Spring is here! Llego la primavera.
Sweetness!
So grateful! 🙏🏾

As our collective healing journey continues, I hav

As our collective healing journey continues, I have been considering how can we heal love itself, our interpretations of love, our embodiment of love, and I’ve been researching and embodying Eros, a liberating current installed in us by Mother Nature. I’m so passionately in love with Eros #eros #pleasure #pleasureactivism

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