Scream until your lungs give out, Laugh without reason, Cry until you can't breathe anymore...

"I have an African friend who is a Powerful Wild Woman in her own right... In her culture women especially will wail and weep and let it cleanse them. They will go outside their huts and just howl. Getting over ourselves is required to find ourselves. Our grief, our pain, our self-loathing ...that makes us want to lash out and judge others, is a result of not enough howling..."
~ Brooke Hampton

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​Today, I let go. Not the letting go of someone or something, but the letting go of control, to the many attempts of foreshadowing predictions and basing my decisions off of them... I allowed myself to cry, to grieve, to feel myself in the pain and expression... It was there that I realized the pain and total sorrow and grief we as humans feel very deeply. I was no longer grieving for myself, but for humanity.. It was there that I saw beyond myself and empathized what it may be like for another. It wasn't about me. I was only experiencing a moment we all as humans feel... It is there I found the bitter nectar of the heart and Existence...

I have been releasing something personal to me, the kind that has me feeling like patterns are being repeated repeated repeated... Nauseous and dizzy.. trying to predict and make sense of things yet only to doubt myself and jeopardize my own security and peace.

I realize in my attempt to protect myself from pain that has or has not yet happened, I allow my ego to be involved and stand in the way of being fully vulnerable, to myself..

Taryn Artistry
Images Captured in India 2015