coordinates: kitchen table at home in Oaxaca with a mostly-eaten frittata of dill and dulce with garbanzo rotini + mug of Tao of Tea Earl Grey
Even though you’ll get this on Tuesday, I’m writing it on Monday morning. I finally can say with all truth – I love Mondays. Despite how difficult this moment on Earth is, I jump out of bed this morning with excitement and curiosity to get going on the week.
It’s been a considerable journey to get here, aided by many teachers and journies with sacred plant medicines. I have a lot to share about how you can get here, too.
I want this feeling of loving Mondays for everyone on planet, but I want it especially for you, dear dragon, since you’ve already made your way here.
I’ve been speaking to many kind and lovely humans over the last month in preparation for the invite-only launch of Dragonfly, the first cohort of people to begin the teaching of the Becoming Dragon wisdom.
At first, I was shocked at how off the rails most of us are. Most of us are seriously overwhelmed. I felt naive for not realizing just how hard things are out there. I mean… I knew, but I didn’t know.
I had to take space to grieve. I had to accept this is where we are.
We begin anew by accepting where we and those around us actually are. We begin by being exactly where we are and telling the truth about it as best as we can.
Launching today: 📅 2022 Overwhelm Survey
OVERWHELM.
Most of y’all are totally effing exhausted. You’re struggling to be there for yourself and your closest family and friends, much less add anything new to your stack.
But how do we step into the bigger calling that’s being asked of us?!
We (Cris Beasley, Psychedelic Guide, and David Swedlow, Relational Meditation Facilitator) need more data on what’s really up with us. This survey will help us better understand how overwhelm is showing up in your life and how it’s impacting your body.
We will collect the insights and metabolize them with gentle brutal honesty.
Cris will make sound meditations based on what you’ve told us in the survey to reprogram stuck neural pathways that hold the limiting thought patterns. We’ll send them out every week right here to this newsletter as a new feature.
This survey should take about five minutes. Don’t overthink it. :D
https://airtable.com/shrI6RVb4JABGgfL3
and lastly, a poem
Have you ever felt your heart like a supernova
bursting out both sides?
My commitment is this –
to make myself legible before your eyes,
to make myself legible to my desires.
To make myself legible,
I build from this dust
of ashes of yore
a temple before your bright eyes,
a temple before your bright eyes,
a beauty that takes my everything.
Have you ever felt your heart like a supernova
bursting out both sides?
Your journey to dig yourself out of overwhelm can start today.
Love from Oaxaca,
Cris and Team Dragon