just as you are by marni loffman | original music published on 2022-04-25T21:19:04Z We belong! Compassionately welcoming all the ways -- emotionally, intellectually, behaviorally -- that we exist right here in this moment allows us to connect. To be present with our selves in our own contradictions helps us build the muscles of witnessing the complexity of the beings around us. It turns us towards each other with open hearts and loving perspectives. Not only is finding home in ourselves and our present moment important for our mental health, stress and overall well being, but it is an important dimension of showing up fully in our communities, in our work to change and transform politics and social life, and harm caused all around us. Holding ourselves just as we are is a primary tool in transforming antagonism and erasure of experience into acceptance, humanization and openness. Lyrics: Its okay to be nervous it's okay to move slow it's okay to not know its okay to not have everything already figured out its okay to feel joy and also feel a lot of doubt you are home where you are as you are just who you are