George Floyd and the Surpassing Dignity of the Human Heart
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Beauties, we want to take a break from our ordinary content today to talk a little bit about what’s happening in the world.
Just to set the table, we are, first and foremost, a relationship company. We teach our members how to open their tender hearts to the world so that love can enter in. We show women that they are loved, beautiful, sacred, and valuable and that they deserve to be treated as such. No matter what.
But there are times when the world dares us to go beyond our day to day lives; to reach higher and dig deeper; to be brave-hearted enough for the compassion, fairness and radical respect that is the foundation of all love, be that love romantic, familial or any other kind.
This moment is one of those challenges. Today is one of those times.
We teach women here that we are all sisters, that we are all embodied, love. But we also know, if we are truly honest with ourselves, that our society does not treat all of those bodies the same way. The bodies of African-Americans and other POC are often capriciously brutalized, as we saw with George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and David McAtee. They are intentionally threatened with the use of that brutality, as we saw with Christian Cooper. And in many communities across the United States, they are over-policed, undervalued in the eyes of the law, and perhaps most heartbreakingly, made to argue for the worth of their own lives.
This is not acceptable and it has to change. The surpassing, inherent dignity of the human heart requires it.
Those of us who have not experienced it do not understand it. And we at EFW who haven’t are not here to insert ourselves in those stories, but to open our hearts as wide as we can to those who have. We promise we will not look away. We promise we are okay with being uncomfortable. We want to hold space for your trauma if you want to share it. This community is a safe space for you to feel your pain and process it. And we call on every sister in this to have the courage of your own compassion, and most of all, to listen.
The feminine is a cup from which healing flows. Please let yours run over.
Actions:
We will be reaching out to our African American and other sisters of color to help educate us on how we can keep our communities safe and inclusive. We will protect our most vulnerable members. It’s time. We can do better. We can do more.
We are donating to: https://www.joincampaignzero.org/#vision
We know that it is frightening out there. And we know our communities are feeling that fear, that tension, that unease. Let’s lean into it, use it, and mine the understanding that so often lives at the bottom of any uncomfortable feeling.
Now, more than ever, you are always loved.
Gio + VP Mona Awad + Embodied Feminine Woman Team
DONATE:
https://www.joincampaignzero.org/#vision
https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd
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Books:
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Racing to Justice by John A. Powell
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
What If I Say the Wrong Thing? 25 Habits For Culturally Effective People by Verna A. Myers
Campaign Zero is a comprehensive platform of policy solutions to end police violence in America.