AS A PERSON
That's me at the Time Out Market in Lisbon (2024) holding a gelato, around maybe 7 p.m.? I did not fall in love with the gelato but I just want to take a photo of myself. Up until a few months ago, I never really liked how I look, act, or I show up to people. And I feel like uploading a photo of me and being super casual in this page is a way to honor and celebrate myself.
If you'd like to know me as a person outside the capitalist pressure of labor and production, here are some things I like and enjoy:
Movement Pilates, dance, yoga (I'm actually doing my foundational 200-hr Yoga Teacher Training!)
Researching about energy and connections. Connection to ourselves, to our bodies, to others, to nature, to our Higher Selves (or God, Universe, our ancestors, whichever you honor within your context and culture). In fact, I am currently building a project which I call Gitling Studio, where I study varying schools of thought. Gitling is hyphen in Filipino, which, to me, represents connections. I hope to share this humble little project with you all soon.
Learning how to sew. I have a Brother GS2700 that I am still befriending. I have some patterns to go through.
Fire or lighting candles or Palo Santo of hopes and prayers at every church I pass.
Books AND bookstores. Bookstores are my happy place. In a recent trip, I have bought 15-20 books. And I need to be stopped.
Random photos of my 14-year old dog, Snowie.
Hope-centric media. If I feel like there are sensations in my body that needs or can be released by (ugly) crying, I watch videos of people coming together, people rehabilitating/forgiving/receiving forgiveness with changed behavior, or people holding space for other people grounded in love. Shows that I loved recently are Ted Lasso and Shrinking.
Procedural shows. When I get overwhelmed, I play reruns of 911, Criminal Minds or Bones.
Co-working dates or any quality-time/quiet-as-a-cat modes with people I love.
Mindfulness, meditation, prayer in gratitude and surrender.
I was always private and secure but I am learning how to live and love loudly, so my Instagram is actually public. See below!
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