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Here at STILL/WILD we help activist and caregiving women prevent or recover from
burnout and chronic fatigue.
More importantly, we lead all women deep into contemplative practice.
"And this is why you cultivate contemplative practice. The more you intentionally turn inward, the more available the sacred becomes. When you sit in silence and turn your gaze toward the Holy Mystery ...
the Mystery follows you back out into the world."
mirabai starr
about
Writer, activist, and certified Life/Mindset Coach Sara Sharpe LaMance suffered for years from such profound burnout and chronic fatigue (ME/CFS) that her life as artist and activist came to a screeching halt. Using the principles and practices she now teaches, Sara is again thriving - in spite of human suffering and the current political upheaval.
You can too. The world needs you and your work.
"We burn with righteous anger but also love beyond understanding. We are not consumed."
~Julie Polter
A note from the founder
The wheels of change turn slowly.
Activist women – those who shed light on human suffering and work to relieve it – know all too well the potential, personal cost of sustained change-making. Bearing witness to extreme suffering on the one hand, and callous indifference on the other, takes a toll on those who refuse to look away. Of course, those who suffer directly don’t have the luxury of looking away, and so it is helpful for the rest of us to hang in there - to find ways of speaking truth to power for the long haul. One way is to regularly honor the mystical, contemplative dimension of our lives.
A regular and rugged contemplative, or “Still,” practice is the portal through which we enter this dimension, and it is sustaining, yes. But it is also much more than that. As Fr. Thomas Keating taught us, “To move into that contemplative realm is the greatest adventure. It is to be open to the infinite and hence to infinite possibilities. Our private, self-made worlds come to an end; a new world appears within and around us and the impossible becomes an everyday experience.”
We invite you into the contemplative realm - into the Stillness - so that you might have some reprieve from your change-making work; so that you might rest, heal and bear witness without sacrificing your health and well being. We invite you into the Stillness so that you might, in every way, experience a new world.
Beginning and maintaining a regular practice is challenging in the beginning, especially if you are new to the Stillness. But we can practice together, and inspire one another, here and everywhere.
We enter into the STILLNESS so that we might bring our disciplined WILDNESS to bear on the most pressing issues of our day; not just today, but for as long as it takes.
Wild hope,
Sara
More about Sara Sharpe LaMance HERE
STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY
Today, and every day, we stand in fierce solidarity with our Black and Brown colleagues and community members.
Within the STILL/WILD movement, white sisters stand sentry so black & brown sisters can speak.
The transformative power of rage is welcome here.
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