Feeling is Resistance

On Embodiment, Accountability, and Rest as Revolutionary Acts

I’m learning a few things about what resistance looks like for me:

First, I must be a fully embodied woman, living within and for myself- not just an observer of myself and others.

For most of my life, I watched myself from the outside. How do I look? How am I being perceived? Am I doing it right? Am I behaving the way they want? This is what empire taught me—to observe my own body, my own life, as if I were the audience, not the inhabitant.

Resistance is dropping into my body and feeling, not numbing. Feeling from the inside out. Living for myself, not for any other.

Feeling is Resistance.

Second, I must always turn my attention inward when I want to point a finger at someone else and blame - this behavior perpetuates the cycle of violence and harm.

When I’m shaken, my first instinct is to blame. To make the other wrong so I can feel right. To point outward so I don’t have to spend time in the uncomfortable places within me.

But blame, even justified blame, is violence. It’s disconnection. It’s the same cycle that created the harm, and I have the power to end it.

Resistance is pausing. Breathing into my entire body and asking: What is this showing me about myself? What do I need right now?

Pausing is Resistance.

Third, I choose rest and recovery over performance.

The culture I live in demands I produce, optimize, transform, perform my worth every single moment, every single day.

Resistance is resting. Not as reward for productivity, but as refusal of the system that measures my value by my output.

Rest is Resistance.