Brave School. The Body Is A Creative Process
daje.x 
Brave School (daje.x) began as a musing into creative courage. It began as a navigation through trying to make sense of how creative communities work. It was an exploration of the woundings we create and the separation narratives we perpetuate by subscribing to comparing ourselves to each other.As a brand strategist, I have often wondered why entrepreneurs get so lost in comparison. Everyone wants to stand out in some way, but not because of their own extravagant and innate offerings. We stand out and perform for profit and the appeal of being provocative.
by @daje.x story doula
"Dreaming is political.Dreaming is a form of planning.
Dreaming is how we honor body—it is how we listen to what aches and what feels heavy.
Dreaming is a response.
When the heart is heavy from painfully yearning for what is good and just, dreaming allows us the runway to envision, build, and call forth the body back into its expanded and courageous self.
As we dive into the next chapter of Brave School, our thoughts are constantly drawn to the idea of the Body as the Creative Process.
The body shifts and aches in this process. It unfolds and unwinds. It expands.
It’s almost as if our dreams are flowing through us like currents—electrifying our thoughts, words, and actions with the desire to encourage the miracle of change.
This isn’t a love-and-light narrative.
This isn’t about how positive and high-vibrational we are.
This is where we own our grief—both in the individual body and the collective body.
There is restlessness to explore both in the spiritual, soul-body and the physical flesh and bone body realm.
There is a current flowing through us, igniting our awareness with both the vibrancy of new ideas and the griefwork begging to be noticed in the collective.
There are fires.
There are daily deaths.
There is an ever-present virus.
Our people are on the border.
There are also reverted paths.
Awakenings. Discoverings.
Unearthings. Reckonings.
There are failures to hold and consider along with the revelations they bring.
The dream is not a utopic design, but rather an agreement to come to the edge of this and allow the good—allow the “yes” to speak to us of new options and new possibilities.
Sometimes the “yes” of expansion is found in the discomfort of unfolding, unfurling, and being birthed again.
Sometimes the “yes” is a rite of passage through which we come to terms with the densities of our bodies and the blocks we experience within ourselves.
The body is a creative process.
And we are navigating.
We are unfurling.
We are finding our flow, our stride—
our medicine.
And sometimes it is unsettling.
Sometimes, it is unnerving.
Sometimes, it can be hard to know how to respond."
Dreaming is how we honor body—it is how we listen to what aches and what feels heavy.
Dreaming is a response.
When the heart is heavy from painfully yearning for what is good and just, dreaming allows us the runway to envision, build, and call forth the body back into its expanded and courageous self.
As we dive into the next chapter of Brave School, our thoughts are constantly drawn to the idea of the Body as the Creative Process.
The body shifts and aches in this process. It unfolds and unwinds. It expands.
It’s almost as if our dreams are flowing through us like currents—electrifying our thoughts, words, and actions with the desire to encourage the miracle of change.
This isn’t a love-and-light narrative.
This isn’t about how positive and high-vibrational we are.
This is where we own our grief—both in the individual body and the collective body.
There is restlessness to explore both in the spiritual, soul-body and the physical flesh and bone body realm.
There is a current flowing through us, igniting our awareness with both the vibrancy of new ideas and the griefwork begging to be noticed in the collective.
There are fires.
There are daily deaths.
There is an ever-present virus.
Our people are on the border.
There are also reverted paths.
Awakenings. Discoverings.
Unearthings. Reckonings.
There are failures to hold and consider along with the revelations they bring.
The dream is not a utopic design, but rather an agreement to come to the edge of this and allow the good—allow the “yes” to speak to us of new options and new possibilities.
Sometimes the “yes” of expansion is found in the discomfort of unfolding, unfurling, and being birthed again.
Sometimes the “yes” is a rite of passage through which we come to terms with the densities of our bodies and the blocks we experience within ourselves.
The body is a creative process.
And we are navigating.
We are unfurling.
We are finding our flow, our stride—
our medicine.
And sometimes it is unsettling.
Sometimes, it is unnerving.
Sometimes, it can be hard to know how to respond."
