What we inherit
What is your inheritance?
What did your ancestors pass down to you? Trauma. Resilience. Fear. Ownership. Courage. Joy. What stories are told by the blood that carries oxygen and nutrients to all parts of your body?
If my blood carries stories then self-care re-writes them. I acknowledge that what lives on in me informs who I am, but I am not beholden to it. This looks like checking every belief against my own inner voice and deciding whether it comes from me or if it's an old relic, living through me but not for me.
Every act of love for myself, every time I choose joy, courage, hope, faith. Every practice and ritual is a small and revolutionary re-writing.
I do it for me. I do it for my future babies. I do it for my ancestors.
What is your inheritance? What does your re-writing look like?