ST Healing Love-IntoBalance October2022 - Flipbook - Page 2
So that happened, and so did so much more…
In November 2021, 20 months into the Covid pandemic, I asked a team of beloved colleagues to join
me to create a follow-on to Measuring Love. The four of us—Audrey Jordan, Kate Morales and Rosa
Gonzalez—embarked on a second journey to create this Brown Paper, Healing Love: Into Balance.
We want to acknowledge that we are writing from a different context, with new learnings and insights
we are eager to share—both ours and others of our close friends and colleagues. In the next pages you
will find
• More acknowledgement of the earth as our necessary partner in life;
• More acknowledgment of similar, resonating work of others;
• Naming of some powerful shifts happening in our society right now that have
affected us just as they affect all of us;
• Keener insights into the importance of embracing our shadow sides, and the
functions of grief and trash in our lives;
• Quotes and stories from fellow “love warriors” we have incorporated in this paperpeople we love who commented on our original paper and insights in the interim;
• Some revised and new framings for how we now think about love and change and
accountability in community.
We realized and need to name that there is a fifth and silent partner to this work, which is the environment.
We find it absurd to think we can imagine a future and sink into love from a carpeted, windowless 70s
hotel ballroom. So, we intentionally chose to do this work a hundred yards from the rushing ocean, walk
barefoot in the sand, and be surrounded by birds, whales, and healthy foods. Paying attention to the
environment has been critical to our creativity and joy.
And I want to turn to our writing team for a minute: Audrey Jordan, a most beloved colleague, friend,
coach, consultant, teacher who helped bring the first brown paper to life, is back as co-author. Kate
Morales who made the first brown paper pop off the pages with their visual illustrations is back as coauthor, gracing these pages with glorious visuals. And we invited Rosa Gonzalez to join us as the other coauthor with her groundedness, ancestral wisdom, cultural understanding to building community power.
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Healing Love: Into Balance | A Brown Paper