09/05/2025
When we release what’s been stored in our bodies—not just buried in mind—we align with what Dian Million calls “felt knowledge”: the deep knowing shared through storytelling, ritual, and embodied ceremony. By naming and releasing trapped feelings through ritual and presence, we reconnect with our community, our lineage, and the divine in ourselves.
And neuroscience supports this: Dr. Uraina Clark has demonstrated that emotional suppression—especially when shaped by trauma and discrimination—overactivates our stress systems, keeping us guarded and distant. But releasing, expressing, and ritualizing our emotions soothes that reactivity and invites presence.
This is the divine masculine in harmony: the grounded protector who holds ceremony with clarity, vulnerability, and grace. The figure who carries both shield and light—allowing healing, intimacy, and communion to flourish. By holding both shield and light, we create safety for ourselves and others to heal in love.
