👋🐒 Hi friends
Sending care and wiggles your way 🌈🕺🏽
If you want to go deeper, you can explore Orientation on Substack 🧭, or listen to the audio version on YouTube 🎧
💭 I love the questions, y’all, and I’m in them with you:
Where in your life are you reaching for something… not because it nourishes you, but because it helps you avoid something? 🤔
What do you turn to when you don’t feel safe in your own body? 🫶
Can you feel the difference between something that soothes you… and something that disconnects you? 🌊
When I talk about addiction, I mean any pattern we return to that helps us not feel — work, relationships, substances, social media, etc. — even when it costs us something 🔄
Discernment matters. Especially right now. 🛡️
A dear friend recently reminded me of that ⚡
We are not all in the same place on Planet Earth 🌍
Not in awareness, not in capacity, not in what we’re able to feel or face.
We cannot caretake others into evolution ⚠️
People develop accountability in cycles — over time, over generations 🌀
This is not about anyone being better than anyone else.
It has to do with what we’ve each lived through — personally, culturally, and historically 🌿
Differentiation may be important and difficult work over the next several months, and 🌅 FBF is here to help!
🌅 The First Breath Framework is an orientation and exploration away from harm, and toward repair 🌬️🤝
It has emerged through my body in collaboration with communities across the world 💙
🌅 FBF was created on the sacred lands of the Seliš, Nimiipuu, Ktunaxa, Ql̓ispé, Niitsitapi, Apsáalooke, Chippewa Cree, Cheyenne, and surrounding Indigenous communities 🪶🌎
We honor the peoples, lineages, stories, songs, sacrifices, ancestors, and lands that have shaped and influenced this work 🙏💛
Repair can only happen in relationship 💞
One of my teachers, Alberto Ruz Buenfil, and La Caravana Arcoíris por la Paz 🌈, shared teachings about las cuatro razas.
I now speak of four major global lineages:
🌍 Indigenous / Aboriginal
🌍 African / Afro-descendant
🌍 Asian / Pacific Islander
🌍 European / Euro-descendant
Colonization has separated these lineages, fragmenting knowledge, relationship, and understanding 💔
We are still living inside the effects of that fragmentation 😢
What if these lineages deeply need one another —
to remember, survive, grow, and reclaim our place as planetary and cosmic citizens? 🌌
What if we need one another to say no to harm on Earth 🚫
and to co-create new systems rooted in care? 💚🌎
🚀 Soft Launch — until June 1st ✨
Full Launch — July 1st
Alive, evolving, and a little imperfect 🌱💜
This fundraiser supports securing new housing and stabilizing my business after a difficult period 🏡💼
We are working toward a $6,000 launch goal by June 1st 🎯
So far, we have received $900 toward this goal 💛🙏 🎉
Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed!
Any amount truly helps 🙌🏼
If this work resonates with you 🌍💞, you’re welcome to explore, give, or share in whatever way feels right
🌳 Ways to connect or contribute:
👉 Linktree with Socials, PayPal, and Stripe
👉 Venmo @Heidij-free
👉 ✍️ Subscribe at soft launch rates
Rates will increase as this project expands
Sliding scale:
Free · $10 · $40 · $40–$100
15% group / organizational discount available
With a paid subscription, you receive:
🌅 Bilingual First Breath Framework PDF
🌈 Extended teachings (7 Realms)
🎥 Embodiment videos
🎧 Additional resources
⏳ This creative work is a limited offering over the next several months and will naturally shift as it completes its current cycle 🌙
🌻 I live with disabilities, and this work moves at the pace of my body
Thank you for being here 💚
🧿 Final Thoughts
I’m not here as an authority to follow, y’all — more of a “walking it, dancing it with you” situation. 🕺🏻
I’m someone trying to make sense of what it means to be human right now, and into the generations ahead 🌍🧭
I don’t want to live in a world where anyone is being harmed or colonized anymore 💔
My focus is repair —
with myself, the Earth, and with you 💞
NEXT UP:
🎥 Decolonial Embodiment Video Series
💖 Reconnecting to Our Worth — transforming shame and exploitation into equity, authenticity, and innate value
🌾 Reconnecting to Being and Having Enough — transforming scarcity and ownership into abundance and belonging
Lots of love 💛✨