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"Trauma doesn't have to be my resting place"
Today’s conversation is with the author, restorative writing teacher, and mother Alex Elle. She is an advocate for self-care as community care and words as medicine. You can find Alex showing up daily on @Alex, teaching workshops on “writing to heal” and hosting the podcast “hey girl.” In this episode, we dive into how Alex truly lives her medicine day in and day out, the ways she cultivates community, and how healing is not a linear journey we embark on. It was truly an honour to sit in conversation with Alex and digest every word of wisdom she spoke, do check the show notes for more details and enjoy this next hour or so.
In This Episode We Explore:
- Self-care as community care
- Where to begin building a relationship to self (note to self)
- Words as medicine
- One walk at a time / one day at a time / the simple pleasures of putting one foot in front of the other
- Community and building community
- Boundaries, intuition, and family lineage
- Intentional everyday soul work
- Trauma doesn’t have to be my resting place
- The duality of healing this and still
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