Here is where you belong..
I’m sure you can relate to this. This excruciating experience
You finally feel like you found community… and then realize you *don’t* belong.
You’re the ONLY [fill in the blank], and crave to be with people who just get you.
Maybe you’re a person of color, living in a White town, and joined a meditation group of BIPOC, hoping you finally would feel seen and understood.
Here you are, you found your people. You connect. You exhale. You feel: “Finally I belong”.
BUT then this thing happens..
That moment where you have a different view or perspective, you say something "off", and you just get that ouch-feeling, and suddenly feel isolated with the people you felt connected with.
One moment you have community and the next you feel super alone.
You feel like you belong nowhere. Can you relate Team?
This is why I coined the term n’betweener.
I wanted to find a unifying word that allowed multiplicity and complexity to exist – where all of you could be. Where all your parts could co-exist.
To allow every individual to have their unique experience of complexity. That there is not “one way” that we are as a marginalized group.
We basically belong in non-belonging.
Or as Maya Angelou would say "You are only free when you realize you belong no place—you belong every place—no place at all."
We’re all so different, and actually don’t have the same experiences, but we feel a unifying sense of belonging in this very difference.
It’s a GUT feeling. A somatic feeling of “yes I get you, without getting you”.
It’s important to expand beyond the one identity of “women”, “queer”, “disabled”,
Because when we then don’t feel “gotten” by our “group”, it hurts 100000 times more.
Well, let me tell you some good news Team.
I’ve got a special space for you.
A space where you get to exhale deeply. Where you belong in non-belonging (that’s right).
It’s called n’between
It’s a unique 6 week empowerment course on turning experiences of internalized oppression into an experience of possibility. It’s designed specifically for you - n’betweener..
It’s a space to feel empowered in a way that truly nourishes you. This is where you come to feel reflected by others without saying a word.
There are just 7 spots left. So hurry up.
Remember there is richness in your unique way of seeing things.
Hug hug,
Nora