Story Time: I found love in a hopeful place.
Tune into the latest episode of What Lingers — where I share a tale of grieving, healing, yearning, a missed connection, and the beautiful friendship that blossomed in its wake.
On the latest episode of What Lingers - I tell the story of my time seeking love and connection at a psychedelic somatic therapy festival. Listen to it on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends who like this sort of thing. If you enjoy podcasts like The Moth or Heavyweight, you’ll enjoy this scrappy new series.
Lately, I’ve been performing at ‘Storytelling Lisboa’ a monthly event where guests tell true stories in front of a live audience around a specific theme. My first performance was a few months ago, when the theme was “The Unsaid” — I told the story of my time at Being Gathering, a festival that I attended in the wake of a series of intense life events: in the span of jus a few weeks, my relationship of two years dramatically exploded and my father passed away of a heart attack in my childhood bedroom… I needed a place to untangle that trauma get my head right.
This was not your typical music festival, days were spent in back to back workshops practicing yoga, breath work, kundalini awakening, cosmic tantra, psychedelic somatic therapy, and whatever other type of ancient holistic healing you can imagine. 6 hours a day diving into past lives, roleplaying through childhood trauma, embodying buddha nature, examining extra terrestrial entities punctuated by ecstatic dance sessions or vaguely erotic massage circles. When I wasn’t weeping in the big tents, I spent time sunning my perineum lakeside or mud bathing nude in red clay pits.
I was tuned in and turned ON ok, like I was really in it deep - and despite all the healing (or maybe because of it) I was yearning from the loins something fierce. People are so much hotter when they are doing-the-work, right?
At Storytelling Lisboa I told the tale of my time at the festival, the person that I was lusting after along the way, the road we didn’t take, and the beautiful connection I made instead. It would mean the world to me if you gave it a listen and shared it with friends and lovers that enjoy stories.
Listen to episode 7 of “What Lingers” — “Connection and Identify: Transformative Experience, Festival Life, and Queerness” on Spotify or Apple Podcasts .
Below I’ve included some phone photos from my time at the festival to give you a bit of color and context to listen against. My phone was off most of the time so I only have a small sampling of the week to offer you but I think you’ll get the idea.
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P.S. I’m trying something new because I miss you all.
If you want to catch up, book a lil call with me, I’d love to catch up and swap stories. It’s been too long since I’ve seen most you — or if you have my number just text me or call me on whatsapp.
