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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

This is from a few years ago, on a day like today.

This is from a few years ago, on a day like today. I’m so deeply grateful for the life and the love of these beautiful humans that I have been given the honor/blessing to share my days with. 🙏🏾

It’s called evolution. 🐛 🦋

It’s called evolution. 🐛 🦋

——Mental-Health-Awareness Month—— A year a

——Mental-Health-Awareness Month——
A year and a half ago I felt like I was dying. The person closest to me said that I looked like I was dying of “cancer;” like, physically I looked like that. I don’t think he was wrong; trauma is a form of cancer in our society.
Yes, a year and a half ago I was thrown into The Underworld (the term I used for the territory that those of us travel when living with anxiety, depression, and other forms of mental health issues.) For some reason I had avoided going into The Underworld for most of my life; I had found ways to stay on the top of the autonomic nervous system ladder (feeling safe and social) but now, beloveds, ooof, I went way down, and I had no tools 🛠 to pull me out; every tool 🧰 I had used until now (to stay connected to BEAUTY, MAGIC, and JOY did not work, not in this part of the underworld. It truly felt like I was dying. I will not lie; it was scary. The “monsters” I fought down there were mighty. I truly doubted my ability to fight them; some days I simply couldn’t. 1. I felt I wasn’t strong enough, and 2. I didn’t have the tools (how come seminary left me with $60K in student loans but no tools to face the underworld? to sustain me during my time of suffering? I don’t know! And how was I supposed to help alleviate human suffering as a minister when I didn’t know how to alleviate my own suffering ? I don’t know!)
Anyhow, the pain was such that I was willing to try anything, and so when I was introduced to plant medicines I said “YES!”
Of course, I was scared, but I was also desperate! Trauma is scarier than plants. 🌱 🍄🌵
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When you are editing a video and realize suddenly

When you are editing a video and realize suddenly that your outfit matches the background/altar perfectly. 🙌🏾 🙌🏾🙌🏾
I wasn’t planning on wearing that outfit; I wasn’t planning on using the altar as a background, but the rain, the poor lighting, etc brought me to this spot and I was pleasantly surprised when I was editing to see how the colors match 😍🥰…🫧✨🦚🪄 🪶What kind of magic is this?
Oh, I’m just deeply grateful for magic these days, which keeps showing up and surprising me in delightful ways. 🙀😻😽 #magic #color

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My dream is to one day live the way the ancestors

My dream is to one day live the way the ancestors did, to be able to wake up, go outside, and be nourished by the Mother in this way. #decolonizing #goals #mangotree #floridaliving

It is HUMAN to feel. Yet, we are taught to resist

It is HUMAN to feel.
Yet, we are taught to resist our feelings,
to FIGHT our feelings;
that’s the patriarchy right there.
“To heal it you have to feel it,” they say.
And I couldn’t agree more!
But ouch, it huuuuuurts to feel strong emotions! Ouchy! 😢
That’s why we want to bypass our feelings.
That’s why we engage in many of our various addictions, because the pain of some of these big feelings are unbearable.
And that’s also why community becomes essential for our healing; when we are held, when we can co-regulate in community it’s easier to feel and release the pain we carry inside; sometimes it’s generational pain.
Feelings are messengers; they have important information from the core of our humanity.
They say: “something has been violated,” or “a line was crossed,” or “I’m dying a slow death here,” or “you are out of integrity with your core”… Every emotion has a message from the human inside you.
Repress your emotions, repress your humanity.
Feel your emotions, remain human.
Fight your emotions, engage in an inner war.
My prayer: May I be human enough to feel, every little thing, every wave and every ripple of emotion showing me how to live in alignment with the human within.
The machinery disconnects me from my humanity.
But I want to be human.
I choose to be human.
To FEEL!
To understand myself I give the mic 🎤 to each of my feelings.
“Yes, you may speak. What do you have to say? How can I be of assistance to you, beloved, beloved part of me.”
The patriarchy doesn’t teach that!
When I depress/repress my feelings, I depress/repress my lifeforce.
Let us be human.
Let us feel.
And let us heal in community.
#healing #healingjourney #nervoussystemregulation #ancestralhealing

Sándwich cubano, cafecito cubano, Malta, Sol ☀️, Familia = Mariela Feliz 😀

The farther I travel on my journey of healing and

The farther I travel on my journey of healing and wholeness, the more I see the damage that the patriarchal white supremacist systems have inflicted on my nervous system, on my ancestors’ nervous systems, and on ALL of us really; in fact, I believe that many of the mental health issues we are experiencing, beloveds, are due to the damage the current systems have inflected on us; they are simply inhumane and not sustainable for the nervous system or the human spirit … It’s a machinery that treats our bodies as machines, and we are not machines; we are sacred beings with hearts and souls and beauty and love and light within. I know this! The farther I travel on this journey, the more I see the devastation, the damage; it’s vast and heartbreaking; the machinery destroys the living Earth with its hunger; it desecrates everything that was SACRED to my ancestors and that is sacred to many of us now. We are nature. We are animals! We have claws, we have fire, we have plant helpers; we have what it takes to protect ourselves, to dismantle those systems, and to create new, healthier, more humane, more natural, more communal, less isolating systems, which is what I’m doing these days. I am sending so much love and gratitude to each of you who have supported me during my healing journey, who have supported me always, who believed in me. Miles de gracias. You are beautiful and I love you!!! Happy Sunday! 😘

My beloveds are back!!! And so is the moss and oth

My beloveds are back!!! And so is the moss and other life forms here in Michigan. I can’t wait for spring foraging in a few weeks. 🙏🏾🍄🌱#mushroom #foraging

Life…how in just a few days the life-force insid

Life…how in just a few days the life-force inside a seed can push through, crack that hard shell, and grow a few inches…that is just awe-mazing to me. That lifeforce that moves through every living thing (including you and me) never ceases to amaze me; that vital life force is one of my subjects of fascination. Every spring I feel it’s such an honor to be able to participate in this sacred act of creation, creating life, which in a few weeks will bring nourishment, beauty, color, nectar, and so much more to the ecosystems we inhabit. If you are seeding seeds of beauty this spring, I thank you. 🙏🏾🌱😘 #spring #seedstarting #seedlings #earthbasedspirituality #religiousnaturalism

I am proud to be part of this movement to decrimin

I am proud to be part of this movement to decriminalize nature to bring healing and sacred-plant spirituality to our communities. If you are curious about why we should decriminalize nature, take a few minutes to watch. Michigan, we have work to do over the next few months. Please help if you can. #decriminalizenature #decriminalizenaturemichigan #entheogens #psychedelic #psychedelictherapy

I was invited to a sweat lodge this weekend, and I

I was invited to a sweat lodge this weekend, and I was warned that we would get dirty; but I was like: “you don’t understand; I long to return to the dirt!!!!” You see, the first memory I have is of me squishing warm mud between my chubby toddler toes after a Caribbean rain storm; I had just found this new delight, and to me it was mesmerizing, enthralling, delicious. It was my first lesson in “Savoring”, one of the themes of my life, my theology, my ministry.
Back then, I was considered “dirt poor” and I went barefoot most of the time, which made people feel sorry for me, especially when I have shared that memory in this country, where being that close to the earth is considered “dirty” and unhealthy.
The truth is, it wasn’t the dirt that harmed me in the end, it was the colonial systems, the same that made our connection to the earth something dirty, something icky…
The truth is, the soil has SO many healing benefits; there’s much recent research on the importance of soil for our health; of course, we are part of nature and our separation from nature has had catastrophic consequences on our health and the health of the planet.
I admit I’ve become too clean, too civilized, too colonized, but I’m grateful that the mother, la madre naturaleza is always there waiting for our return; no judgement, no lecture, just open arms. 🙏🏾 May you take some time to reconnect with and savor some deliciousness from Mother Earth. 🙏🏾 🌍 👣

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Drinking my coffee facing east, breathing-in the f

Drinking my coffee facing east, breathing-in the fresh morning air, praying, praying, thanking the mother for this exquisite beauty and for this life which can be so hard and so simple. Morning blessings going your way. This is a morning practice I highly recommend for connecting to the spirit of the east (which to me it represents grace, the benevolence of life, new beginnings…) #pachamama #sunrise #sunworshipper #earthlover #spiritualpractice #spirit #east

Un día bello para visitar a Ochún en el río. ☀️ 🌻
A beautiful day for visiting Ochún by the river.
#ochun ☀️🌻

I just finished recording a new teaching/sermon/le

I just finished recording a new teaching/sermon/lecture that is very close to my heart; it’s about how reconnecting to the four sacred elements can assist in healing our nervous systems and our ecosystems.
“Throughout the centuries, humans have considered the four elements to be not only sacred but also intrinsically linked to human health. This video teaching explores how the human nervous system has evolved with nature, how it's a part of a larger ecosystem, and how we can reclaim this wisdom to heal ourselves and the planet.” Available now for individuals and congregations. It gives me such joy to share this beauty, this ancestral wisdom with you all 🙏🏾

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