Mia Hetenyi Archives | Rebelle Society

We've developed tools to deal with the tension created in our systems between us and chronic grief. We seek out pleasure to escape the pain.

Our grief opens our hearts back up to loving the wild within, to feeling the power of this aliveness, this love, this passion.

Many spiritual traditions, so deeply culturally appropriated in the West, incorporate acknowledging of impermanence, of death and letting go.

Healing complex trauma is a slow, steady journey of learning to live life more open, surrendered and trusting that it's safe to flourish.

It's challenging when we live in a world where we receive a consistent message that self-love is important, but no one really knows how.

It's simple, really, learning how to love ourselves in the depth of a collective, yet deeply intimate, human experience of grief.

The death mother is the wife of the patriarchy. She rules through oppression of the Feminine. She pulls us away from anything life-affirming.

Lean into the fire and see where you are not yet free. Where you do not accept yourself, what needs to be grieved and what is hard to love.

For me, addiction was distrusting the capacity of life to regenerate itself into anything new, life-affirming, good, loving or safe.

Normally, we use the mind to solve problems. The problem of the body. The problem of the emotions... The problematic behavior.