I Think One Of The Problems With

Trauma Dissociates Us From The Parts Of Our Body That Are Wounded, So We Have To Leave Our Whole Body. It's A Journey You Take Your Whole Life, That Coming Back In, Re-landing In Your Body, In Your Self, On The Earth. I Think One Of The Reasons It's Been So Easy, In A Way, For Us To Violate Both Women And The Earth Is This Profound Dissociation That Exists In Everyone.

When I Was Younger I Felt Very Disempowered, Very Disappeared. I Felt Worthless, Like I Had No Right To Exist. I Think A Good Part Of My Life Was Spent Recovering From That. Pulling Myself Out Of That.

If You Are Connected To Your Own Internal Being, It Is Very Hard To Be Screwing And Destroying And Hurting Another Human Being, Because You’ll Be Feeling What They’re Feeling. If You’re Separated, It’s Not A Hard Thing To Do At All.

Today The United States Has The Highest Prison Population In The World, Over 2.1 Million People. ... We Lock People Up At A Rate That Is Seven To Ten Times That Of Any Other Democracy.

I Think We Have A Tendency In America To Keep Dividing Ourselves, Separating Ourselves From Each Other.