I honor you

A letter of encouragement

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Leanneisalive is a weekly reflection on embodied liberation. I write about unleashing our aliveness to escape oppression and lead others to liberation. Sometimes it’s a rallying cry, sometimes it’s a teach-in, sometimes life is life’ing and I don’t post that week. But I’m always glad you’re here. 👋🏾💗

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Some of you may not know why this Substack is called Leanne Is Alive.

The reason is profound. And it applies to you, too…

I was born Leanne Ruth Alaman, but through the miracle of liberation work, I evolved beyond the trauma of oppression that Leanne was born into. I outgrew that claustrophobically small name four long years before life gifted me a new one.

Perhaps you are outgrowing your stale and stagnant life of oppression, too…

I kept thinking I should change this Substack’s name now that I’ve changed my name to Selahm. But I can’t do it. I tear up with gratitude for everything Leanne did for me.

For decades, Leanne dragged herself to therapy, meditation retreats, and seminar after seminar on personal growth and healing. She held me (the person she would become) in her heart as she did humiliating work trades for healing work she could never afford.

She grinded for me. She healed for me. Eventually, she learned to rest for me, and receive for me, and be terrifyingly tender with her rage for me. She learned to be loved for me. She did everything Life asked of her - with a fair amount of grace - even though it was brutal, lonely, and humiliating.

Maybe you refuse to give up on the healed-self you know you are creating, too…

When she felt resigned that Life would never give her a new name, she decided to call her work LeanneIsAlive to bring vitality to her stagnant inheritance of familial weakness. With LeanneIsAlive, she could breathe again.

Maybe you found ways to acclimate to your trauma, too…

I think this newsletter will remain LeanneIsAlive to honor Leanne’s legacy and memorialize her contribution. She f*cking did it. Even when the voices inside her and outside her told her she wasn’t sh*t and she would never do it, she did it.

Maybe you know you are destined to be more than what you and others think you can be, too…

And so I honor Leanne: She Who Became So Alive She Evolved Into Liberation.

I honor you too…

For everything you do alone in the dark to heal yourself

For everything you do day after day for your liberation

For everything you do to liberate the body of humanity that is ripping itself apart

For everything you claim

For everything you release

For every single thing no one will ever know about

For everything it takes to keep going day after day

I honor you.

You will win in the end.

Your inner knowing is correct.

It is worth it.

You are worth it.

Keep going…

In Love and Aliveness,

~ LeanneisAlive

I am the force of nature. I trust my aliveness

Healing Portal Images by Selahm Beman