The other day, something really upset me, and I instantly felt myself exit my body. It was as though a part of me simply left the room.
For the first time in a while, I knew what to do. A voice in my head said: “Tara, just take care of your body.”
So, I drew a bath. I massaged myself from head to toe with
body oil, and then I soaked in the warm water until I felt my limbs fill back up with feeling and my mind begin to notice physical sensation again.
I got my body back.
It strikes me that one of the most radical things we do at Meow Meow Tweet is to remind you that you have a body. That you’re carrying it through the world and that it deserves care.
We do this in an atypical way from your average commercial enterprise. We operate with love, joy, and acceptance. We don’t traffic in shame or stigma. We don’t tell you what’s wrong with you and how we’re going to fix it.
Feeling embodied is so much deeper and more important than skin care, but we can do both. Maybe these two things can even help or learn from each other. If we can free skin care from the constraints of capitalism, then it becomes just that… care.
When you remind your body to come back to you, it will learn to trust again. That leads to embodiment, and that embodiment brings us closer to our own power. And that, babes, is real freedom.
