#selfloveisarevolutionaryact

[candiceanitra-blog]

Pouring love into myself daily includes but is not limited to: mini or biggie dance breaks as needed, seducing my selves lovingly with all tenderness through love letters, affirming wordsn & moving and/or still picture odes. #nonbinary #tantra #trauma #transmutation #selfloveisarevolutionaryact #anxiety #depression https://www.instagram.com/p/BrV7dnAgzBU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1l4nhcqagtsib

[earthwarrior]

#selfloveisarevolutionaryact 🌪 (at The Standard, East Village NY)

[lynsvike]

Black feminist Audre Lorde talks about self-care as a revolutionary act, particularly for women and girls of color. If we put a Sacred lens on this idea, as many womanist and black feminist theologians do, taking care of, recognizing, and lifting up the Sacred in oneself—the Imago Dei, the made in the image of God-ness, is in itself a saintly act, particularly when the society and culture around you finds it audacious to believe that you should even survive, should even exist. Angel Haze is just one of many leading the way in this revolution, following in the foot steps of millions. Thank you Audre Lorde, and Happy birthday.

[candiceanitra-blog]

Sometimes I have felt the need to tamp down my anger, sadness, or indignation to protect & center whiteness. In recognizing how important it is for me to make space for my varied emotional expressions, to witness myself in technicolor, I am centering my healing & integration again & again & again. For example I used to always feel the need to be an open book for white people but now I am committing to walking or stepping away when I feel my body telling me through through physiological stress responses that I'm tamping or tending to others needs at the expense of my own. A @embodiedchiropractic #rp #selfloveisarevolutionaryact #selfloveisrevolutionaetactespeciallyifyourebrown #lightworker #shadowdancer #blackbody #trauma https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpo1D6eAPq4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5g560u52ns2n

[candiceanitra-blog]

Self care is a revolutionary act. The default - in power, in beauty, in life still looks nothing like me. I need to repeat myself 50leven times before I am believed in pain, in love. I am brown & this dripping aloe is sexy & yes I just massaged it into my head looking fine af, & yes.I have fantasies too. I love to play & frolic & cultivate the joy & pleasure that is my birth right. I say yes to these last awkard sexy shadow dancing days of 2018, I say yes to this purging & unearthing & becoming. I say yes to all of this love I pour into myself. #selfloveisarevolutionaryact #shadowdancer #lightworker #blacklivesmatter https://www.instagram.com/p/BrqvOzSg7LN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4c57glvs00li

[candiceanitra-blog]

Self love is a revolutionary act & never before have I seen myself so readily & expansively in social discourse. Usually it is in the work of other black, trans, &/or non binary women that I see reflected back at me, the rooting & purging of internalized bias which is at the core of my trauma & integration. On their pages, in their articles/feeds they hold sacred space. More & more & more I feel my maternal ancestors Mattie & Dorothy at my back, sides, & front, encircling me in their wards of protection. I have tagged some of the beautiful human beings who remind me that I don't have to create boundaries, but rather recognize those that were already there to begin with which I was socialized to repress or ignore in past iterations. #selfloveisarevolutionaryact #trauma #tantra #shadowdancer #lightworker #nonbinary #blackbody https://www.instagram.com/p/BrSiTCIgilV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dc7iufcvs0wn

[candiceanitra-blog]

Nanu nanu lovers. I see you. I feel you. I believe you. #selfloveisarevolutionaryact #selfloveisarevolutionaryactespeciallywhenyourebrown #healingisdaily #lightworker #shadowdancer #trauma #tantra #alchemista https://www.instagram.com/p/BpmKixGA0X1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1u9bkya7fd4rt

[candiceanitra-blog]

Dear Self: I didn't realize how many conditions I put on you, how many internalized & archaic thoughts & paradigms I used to abuse you, subjugate, bend you to my will, limit your expression lest you attract the moths. I'm sorry for forcing you to bite your tongue, sit on your hands, or take care to protect others over self & call it loyalty. I'm sorry for the addictions to external validation, to lust, to martyrdom which I refused to examine, refused to be curious about. I am sorry for not loving you unconditionally. I was doing my best & now that I know you/us/we better & better I give thanks for every egde & wall, for every version of me, for the warrior spirit resilient, buoyed up by my ancestors in a dance of infinite call & response. I love you! A @healing_water_and_fire #repost #rp #notetoselves #shadowdancer #lightworker #alchemista #ancestralhealinginprogress #trauma #ptsd #selfloveisarevolutionaryact #selfloveisarevolutionaryactespeciallywhenyourebrown https://www.instagram.com/p/BpCTZGPAJmr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1sazaeb1ihzov

[candiceanitra-blog]

Me errrrry day! I am always learning how to be a good friend, lover, parent to myself & observing my thoughts is such fertile ground. When shining a compassionate light towards myself, forgiving myself, I can stay present, to amplify & magnetize that which serves me & my further expansion. #healingisdaily #selfloveisarevolutionaryact #shadowdancer #lightworker #mindfulness #tantra #tantrastudies #tibetantantra #singersoulmama #alchemista https://www.instagram.com/p/BoJiFO4BcAL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5meq4yrajrql

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Remembering to be gentle with my beautiful selves as I navigate the lifey-ness of life. Since holding space for myself is paramount -- Last night I noticed my edges about beginning a counselor training program so I pulled up the directions & added a shortcut to my home screen, gave myself extra travel time this morning. Sometimes my self care basically looks like me being my own juicy assistant. #selfloveisarevolutionaryact #selfloveisarevolutionaryactespeciallywhenyourebrown #myedges #lightworker #shadowdancer #tantra #singersoulmama https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn4sjDuB2C8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tgw7u75zu0hk

[candiceanitra-blog]

Yep, still there 👀Thank you lovely limbs for receiving mosquito spit like a champ, for all of the squatting lunging walking running standing skipping rising sitting you do. Thank you for seducing me errrytime I catch your reflection in the mirror or catch the light radiating on you just right. #tantra #tantrastudies #lightworker #shadowdancer #healingisdaily #ancestralhealinginprogress #trauma #ptsd #selfloveisarevolutionaryact #selfloveisarevolutionaryactespeciallywhenyourebrown https://www.instagram.com/p/BnzaUCLBmHG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18j5x5qkwhxko

[candiceanitra-blog]

Point of view. #selfloveisarevolutionaryact #shadowdancer #lightworker https://www.instagram.com/p/BnkQRpbhQz4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nkj6buhbihqe

[candiceanitra-blog]

The multidimensional purging taking place right now is hard to articulate BUTT :P here goes...all my selves washed up on my shores, surrender in emotional/physical body, vulnerability & depth of emotion deepening, the return of old patterns I BEEN loved on, lol, the gentle shifting of awareness to centering my healing & integration again & again & again & again... #permamood #lightworker #shadowdancer #sexologist #sexeducator #singersoulmama #multidisciplinaryartist #healingisdaily #alchemista #trauma #ptsd #ancestralhealinginprogress #selfportrait #selfloveisarevolutionaryact #selfloveisarevolutionaryactwhenyourebrown https://www.instagram.com/p/BmO8JyZBMN3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dwe5zm86jmlk

[candiceanitra-blog]

It's raining now but earlier this here cloud leaf combo had me open like whaaaaaaat! Ps. I love you. #nerdfornature #lightworker ##shadowdancer #healingisdaily #cloudporn #leafporn #treeporn #selfloveisarevolutionaryact https://www.instagram.com/p/BmMbH8slzXN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=gusiq66zpfia

[candiceanitra-blog]

So obsessed with dry beans (& going bra-less =) this summer -- these beans are black turtle & these nipples are chocolate 👀 LOL #healingisdaily #selfportrait #selfloveisarevolutionaryact #ancestralhealinginprogress https://www.instagram.com/p/BmHXQN4BwX0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ubs4y482fcub

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I've been taking it super duper easy with myself as I heal from this muscle strain & I almost got my hip action back 👀 Bodies are magically delicious & mine has been missing my PM solo mirror twerking times! #seductionofself #selfloveisarevolutionaryact #healingisdaily #ancestralhealinginprogress