Elena Lake 🌿 is in the forest of dangers and wonders

I resolved this by having a very restrictive diet, lol. is that something you’re interested in, or nah?

it actually made my stomach stronger! three years ago gluten would destroy me but now I can have a lil bit here and there

throat chakra stuff

using-our-voice is a foundational aspect of being human; without it we get predictable health issues

I don’t remember specifics from throat chakra chapter 5 of eastern body western mind but I liked it, perhaps you may too

aw thanks! I appreciate this reflection, I still feel there’s so much about the body I don’t know

but I sure do know more than lots of people who others look to as authorities …! that’s been a weird one to realize

wow, me, anytime

200 - that’s a proper village !

soooo I only read your feed for the real stuff and ignore all the jokes fwiw

saying this in case you have some assumption that “people want the jokes”

ohhhh I’m ready for this one https://bsky.app/profile/relicradiation.bsky.social/post/3jucjvobbq32s

some samples

cc @petrichor.bsky.social

my computer autosuggested this photo album today, curated out of my old pics

and honestly I feel delighted and understood 🌸

always so happy when my ‘strange niche story’ that I felt weird for living at the time

resonates for someone else 💜

ooo nice to meet you! It’s possibleeee 😊 & also there’s no rush, it can happen incrementally. what are your main blockers right now?

I wrote a bit about my own path, here https://relicradiation.substack.com/p/what-did-i-hate-about-tech-from-tech

beautiful landscapes? ah I gotchuuu. wishing you resolution of the stress 💜 https://bsky.app/profile/relicradiation.bsky.social/post/3ju3d3fclpm2i

Haiii

Used to be, and now I’m a massage therapist, also learning, um, ritual farming & herbalism

after visiting the mountains this weekend I … wrote a song!

shared here as a poem bc I can’t post vids yet. otherwise I’d serenade ya

well more specifically I live here, which is not as far as it looks - it’s about a 10m drive from the downtown.

pic taken by me on a weekend hike 💜

I live heeeere :)

(( spot the downtown ))

this is what it means to have a relationship with your feminine, yes

Asheville! didn’t know it was so high on your radar, welcome. Have you been?

reminder ping 🌿

trying on a frame:

the spirit of money is the same spirit of the harvest: that which feeds & sustains us.

so, ‘extractive agriculture’ mirrors ‘runaway profitmaxxing’ - the same phenomenon.

it’d be better for society to shift to ‘regenerative agriculture’ frames of moneymaking

yay! I don’t often, but I’ve been meaning to for a bit. I lived there for 6mo a few years back :) and almost moved there long-term but then chose SFbay.

sending you a twitter dm about how to best contact you -

(( idk your relationship to bodywork but the thing I do is not ‘normal massage’, it’s a combination of modalities + my own techniques that work as direct portal to rejuvenative braindump trancespace. good for nervous system support when people are feeling frieddd ))

omg would you like a free craniosacral / massage session when I get back to the bay?

might be November at the latest so I hope you don’t fry too hard before. but we can take off 3-5 layers of stress in 30m easy, more in more. leave refreshed & rebooted & creative 🌿

it…it’s ok for it to be about your experience

not saying this is you BUT

four years ago I was like “why am I suddenly obsessed with learning everything I can about trauma, I’m fine” 1y later - “oh. I care about this Love thing and really, deeply, powerfully wish my life had had more of it”

oh woah. interesting. I’ve found them extremely practical and they’re most of why I’m still alive

also why my life is so different than it used to be

if you act like reality is alive, it mostly gives you very good reason to believe that’s the case

if you act like reality is an assortment of lifeless objects, ditto

curious how you feel about non-cringe frames like “trauma as initiation of an elder, that seeks completion” or “trauma as a healer trying to come through”

oh also it leads to a lot of mental health crisis

inability to sustain deep relationships

opposite of joy or fun or sustainability

the concrete harm done by “treating the body as an object to control, versus a self that reveals to us our soul path” is

* leads to destruction of the environment
* keeps people away from deeper, soul-level well-being
* sucks for kids. they don’t act like this & have to painfully ‘learn’ it

Yes

it…it’s ok for it to be about your experience

not saying this is you BUT

four years ago I was like “why am I suddenly obsessed with learning everything I can about trauma, I’m fine” 1y later - “oh. I care about this Love thing and really, deeply, powerfully wish my life had had more of it”