share your spiritual biography in 10 words, or less:
I’m a Healer and Practitioner on the Emotional Karmic Body.
where are you turning for soul nourishment / joy / aliveness?
I’ve been turning to my inner-work for soul nourishment. Through my self-nurturing rituals and my somatic therapeutic techniques for deep grief, I consecrate my body as my own altar – a portal of love, dignity, & miracles.
what is a text you hold sacred?
My childhood journal that has held and kept me for the past 27 years of wisdom. Her words are my guidance, my reflection, and my degree for the work I do now.
what is a spiritual practice currently sustaining you?
Sacred bathing is an spiritual art form of somatic bodily therapy for me and has been sustaining me during a time of loss, grief, and trauma. Baptism, spiritual bath, and worship of water as medicine are ancestral tools that have been calling to me lately in my somatic trauma recovery.
how would you describe the work you feel called to do in this world (even if it is not the work you get paid for)?
I am an inner-child author and trauma recovery coach for all adult-children of child abuse and trauma. I help adult child survivors reassociate with their bodies, their souls, and their minds through self-help & therapeutic techniques. As a healer & studying-somatic practitioner, I believe our subconscious emotions & holistic health are an extension of our Soul – emotional karmic body. My work helps every survivor of trauma learn, fall in love with, and master their own capability to somatically, naturally, and intentionally heal themselves from the inside out through a deep, honest reunion with the self. We all deserve our happy endings. So let’s do this together!
knowing that none of us “has it all together,” what is one question you are wrestling with, or bit of wisdom you are struggling to enflesh in your daily life?
A bit of wisdom I have been struggling with has been rediscovering my own joy. As a survivor with C-PTSD, I have found it difficult to generate organic Joy the way I’ve been able to in the past prior to experiencing a recent loss within the past year. I have, personally, been struggling with a form of survivor’s guilt for outliving a traumatic experience. Each day has been progressing for the better, despite the sensations. I am relearning experiencing Joy in a new place of safety. It has been difficult, yet so rewarding.
who is one elder / ancestor / mentor whose guidance you draw from? what is one piece of wisdom they have offered?
My work honors the work of ancestors Audre Lorde and Alice Walker. To me, “what womanism is to feminism, self-nurturance is to self-care.” Self-nurturing is the continuation of self-care going further into our own sacred inner-work to heal our Soul beyond the oppression it’s endured. Whether familial or societal, trauma inflicted is often trauma stored in the body and felt through the emotions. I believe being emotionally intelligent and intuitive is an act of resistance to regenerate the body, restore the mind, and revitalize the spirit. Only love cancels out hate and starting with ourselves is where the revolution begins.
what’s one oppressive untruth you are practicing unlearning / divesting from?
One major oppressive untruth I have been unlearning for years is the myth that divine femininity had no strength of its own and cannot protect itself. The idea that the traits of divine femininity that we all inhabit, such as compassion, patience, cooperativeness, etc are reasons to be taken advantage of, exploited, and even bullied. The myth that the problem was in being vulnerable and being unconditionally loving. These are in fact strengths – peace, patience, and empathy are superhuman gifts that are meant to be honored by each and every person. The empathetic, sensitive, and spiritual children of each decade had it right.
what is one thing you wish were required listening / viewing?
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker & The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life by Edith Eger
any of your website and/or social media handles you’d like us to include / highlight?
@thebrittanytaylor_ on IG & TikTok