I have been working with the cannabis plant for over 13 years now. Intimately and deeply.
She has played a large role in my life and my healing journey. I credit so much to her. My life has taken miraculous turns as I have walked through the depths of healing and I know I am not alone.
Over the years of advocating for her and working in spaces to increase access and change laws, I witnessed countless stories of healing. I found I was amongst many who had their lives touched so profoundly by a plant.
A plant carrying so much power and influence continuously tugged on my heart and led me down a road of deep exploration.
This plant truly is a gateway. A gateway into a deeper connection to self and body. For myself and so many, she served as the first introduction to healing with plants. An entrance point into remembering that plants are our allies and the earth provides an abundance of support all around us.
It isn’t just about “smoking weed” or using CBD oil for arthritis. There is a deeper medicine tugging at us all.
A deeper medicine that can be accessed when we slow down, interrupt our patterns, and listen.
She invited me to do that and now I have arrived in a place where all I want is to write about her, dance about her, and talk about her.
I’ve kept so much in for so long.
This plant has been so patient with me over the last year. She has given me the space I’ve needed to sink into the deeper medicine she holds. We’ve stayed in communication but it’s been more of a long distant relationship. Taking the space that deep relationships sometimes need. You see for me, she has always been there. She held me through the times of being so sick I didn’t really want to be in this body anymore. She held me through the times of deep trauma when the flashbacks kept me from sleeping. She held me as I began to find my voice and I would speak about her even when people would look at me like a drug addict.
This support led me to want to give back to her and to all who may have felt a similar or worse stigma. The stigma that comes from healing through your own sovereignty. The choice to choose how you heal your own body, in spite of all of the institutions telling you your intuition is wrong.
Yes, this plant is becoming more “mainstream” now but the stigma hasn’t gone away. It just continues to change shape. And for those who utilize her as a medicine, we must remain aware of how the stigma changes and attempts to sabotage our right to heal.
This plant holds so much wisdom and it activates the wisdom within us. It activates community and connection.
And so, my intention for creating this space is to share my experiences, thoughts, and feelings about this plant in a container where it is held. My intention is for those who read this to feel held in that container for their own thoughts, feelings, and experiences to flow.
It is held under the umbrella of Beloved Gateway which encompasses the support I offer with death, transition, and also cannabis, plants, and the earth. It is all connected.
To me, death and cannabis are both gateways. They are sacred feminine gateways into our truth as humans. Into the rhythms of this earth.
I hope to inspire you to feel into your heart and allow the medicine of these gateways to permeate your life.
More to come…
xx, Lisa Marie.
I need more :)