2023-03-23
1 小时 2 分钟Deep waters, the awakening.
The ocean does not apologize for the space that it takes up.
It does not make excuses for the depths that most people cannot handle.
It cannot help but drown those who are not ready to submerge beneath its fathomless waves.
Let this too, be a lesson to us that we may expand as far as we need to not apologize for the way the others are, are not ready to submerge into our waters for those who might tell us to come back to shore when we've always known we were made, shaped, created for deep waters.
So, have you ever felt that you're living a life that isn't truly yours?
Maybe you long to uncover the most authentic version of yourself, the one that's laid hidden beneath layers of expectations and societal norms.
Or maybe you really just feel trapped in a never ending cycle of change and growth without ever really getting where you want to be or feeling the way you want to feel.
Well, what if I told you that there was process to the feeling of emergence, a journey to embrace, and that it was steeped not in rigidity or force, but in poetry and grace?
Well, in today's conversation, poet, spoken word phenom, author, actor and artist Ariel Astoria guides us through a journey she calls the unfolding.
And Arielle has shared her work with Google, lululementetics and more.
Her passion for empowering women to feel at home in their own bodies and lives has resonated with countless individuals and her latest book, named after the seasons of liberation, she writes and speaks and invites us into the unfolding is a beautiful collection of poems and essays and meditations that guide us through this transformative process.
In our conversation today, Ariel introduces us to the awakening, which is this crucial moment of self realization, the eclipsing some of the dark moments in our lives that we need to move through.
The mending, the delicate art of piecing ourselves back together again, the illuminating the time when we finally let light in and gain new perspectives, and what she calls the returning, the culmination of our journey, where we find our wholeness and peace.
In this really beautiful and intimate conversation with Arielle, she shares her personal experiences of pain, of growth, and reveals how we can all learn to embrace a process of unfolding in our own lives, of coming home to ourselves.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project.
So as we're having this conversation, you are well into this really wonderful career in spoken word as a poet, author, speaker, and also acting.
It's kind of like a fascinating portfolio of forms of expression of your humanity, your artistry.
And I kind of want to dive into those a bit.