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to be “Toucouleurs”, to bring out all these messages and projects “from oneself”, from the deepest of oneself, is such a great gift that you offer to the world. I was amazed by Saran and our encounter, by this “complete” being who will come back soon to the blog to talk about something else.

Honesty is definitely something that touches me deeply. I think it was Géraldine who first upset me by her honesty (it was during personal conversations, not here), then Jerry, Vanessa etc… And we should all have these honest conversations with ourselves . Saran also reminds me of Mem, the Mad Sufi (do you remember?) Who said to us: “the mind is wonderful but can comprehend so many possibilities, while the heart, fiiiiiit, knows its direction, it ” knows “.” and I think that it is this kind of honesty that Saran speaks about, that of the heart, yes:

What do you hear about yourself when you stop the sound of your thoughts ?!

love to you all!

2 posts featuring Jerry in the same week?!! it was not scheduled this way, but whatever!

As usual, i am totally overwhelmed by Jerry’s vision. and when i say vision, i talk about love and realness, not about dogma.

If you want to go further on this question of addiction, I invite you to watch this vidéo based on a TED speech by Gabor Mate (you will see No-Face play the Hungry Ghost). go and see! it made me understand that the question to ask is not “why is addiction wrong?” but rather : “why is it good? what does it bring to people?” if you don’t ask that question, you break the chain of causalities and can’t go up to the root of the primal disconnection Jerry is talking about. Don’t do that on your own, it is “dangerous” because what is there is rarely nice. to all of you, i send you love <3

this video, is also a message about children’s eduction. in both these 2 situations :

> when you are in charge of an institution

roughly speaking, Bryanston was Jerry’s school. As you can imagine while watching the video, he had his worst and best time there. He was anything but a cool kid or a brilliant student, and I feel profoundly touched by Peter Hardy, who is in charge of these conferences there, to call this “former bad student”, to share his personal experience from heart to heart. his message is nothing but simple, it does not play on the fear of repression (if it worked, we would know it right?!), but his message that can save lives. the main danger of addiction for children is they don’t know they are mortel.

teachers, people working in administrations, the educational system, may you hear this message!

> when we are parents

you know how sensitive I am when it comes to the notion of transmission. there are so few parents who are capable of sharing EVERYTHING they are with their children. I remember someone who did not want to say to his children he had not have his BAC (the French equivalent of JCSCs i guess). it was indeed to protect them (him?) so that they a good image of their referent adult. i so much understand. to love is not always easy. but here, Jerry teaches me you can share the whole of “you”, rather than a “good image or them”. this is such a proof of love, it chokes me! and this teaches how to love, without disconnecting yourself.

You only have one life (i mean, so far…), your life. share it, with the ones you love. love may begin this way.

<3

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I met Angelo 7 years ago, on this very post! 7 years!!!

Then last year, just after me-too came out, we had one of these long public chats on facebook regarding  masculine-feminine, dark side etc. Then we had lunch and shared our new lives, our journeys. He has been growing both as a very famous French record director (working for instance with Christine and the Queens) and a coach-therapist.

In France, Angelo has also launched a successful instagram account and podcast, called  Balance ta Peur, that invite you (in French but I think the concept should be duplicated in English) to share your fears. People do it anonymously and acknowledge it does them good to let go and recognize they are not alone! we are all broken aren’t we?!

I still have not found the secret of the relationship i have with him and so many others : my partner is both a therapist and a musician and writer, my former body therapist is also a color designer in theater lightning, Angelo is both a composer and coach, and I here share my very intimate journey as an human being and artist.

what is there about this  same oscillation between healing and creating…?!

the word “magic” pops up, again, but it is still not clear to me what it is exactly.

any idea?!