We Heal Collectively

Well, to start, let’s just say there were quite a few stumbling blocks and bottlenecks getting to this name. Many years full of a whole lot of imposter syndrome, caring too much about what others thought, and heaps of self-doubt.

I’ve always wanted to do big work, but struggled with the “how”. Arriving in Portland almost 10 years ago, I was pretty freshly divorced, starting a whole new life, a whole new chapter. Eager to dive into the love and light of it all. To me, at that point in my life, it felt good. Really, really good.

Until one day, I looked around me and realized that sparkly varnish had faded. There was no depth to be found. A lot of glossing over of inconvenient truths and a whole lot more spiritual bypassing.

When 2020 hit and the social uprisings began after George Floyd was killed, I realized it was not the time to be quiet or play small. I stopped giving as much of an F about what other people thought of me and started stepping into the truth of who I am.

A truth-teller. A shit-stirrer. A deep-diver kind of gal.

My fiery AF Sagittarius fire sign (with an added Aries moon) was burning bigtime.

The phrase “Collective Revolution” came to me in a meditation during 2020 when I was lit the eff up and reeling in that feeling of less talking, more doing.

To me, these two words have so many layers and they all converge and weave together around a central vision of healing the collective in all the ways we human together.

In the ways we heal together, do business together, exchange money and time with each other.

In all the ways that we practice reciprocity with all of our human family. With our animal kin. With spirit.

In the ways we honor all of our relations - human, animal, mineral, earth, spirit.

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Sounds great… but what does that actually mean?

  • It looks like sliding scale or reduced rates for BIPOC and those in the global majority

  • It looks like trading with each other, in lieu of a purely financial exchange

  • It looks like amplifying, centering, and sharing content from BIPOC creators

  • It looks like paying to learn from BIPOC teachers and mentors

  • It looks like standing up for others, even if you are not personally affected

  • It looks like purchasing from ethical companies who are not actively contributing to polluting our beautiful earth, who are not taking responsibility for the part they plan in climate change and the destruction of habitats and ecosystems

  • It looks like donating part of your sales to organizations who are doing the good work

  • It looks like giving money, time, resources, whatever you can take on to help BIPOC flourish, succeed, be celebrated

  • It looks like naming your privilege and getting comfortable having hard conversations

  • It looks like making our own medicines with the plants that grow around us - or that we grow ourselves - and not relying solely on western systems of medicine to keep us well

  • It looks like people over profit, always, in all of the ways

  • It looks like land back to the original occupants of Turtle Island (the so-called United States), who were forcibly removed

  • It means reparations for our black and brown sisters and brothers, who are still feeling the reverberations of enslavement

  • It means ceasefire to genocides… everywhere, anywhere, forever

  • And so, so, so much more…

I hope you will join me in this work.

I believe in us.

I love you,

Nikke

P.S. I am learning every day. Please reach out to help me learn and grow if I have not named something here or offended you in any way. I know that I have unconscious bias and am trying to remain as open as I can to learn from others how I can best serve the collective. Deep gratitude for your willingness to dialogue with me.