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Tanya Taylor Rubinstein
Tanya Taylor Rubinstein

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Dec 21, 2022

Paradox and the Light

CN: Suicide For Allison 1. 1994 I’m twenty-eight years old. I’m back on the east coast from New Mexico, going through boxes of books in the attic of my mother’s Victorian home. I come across a bound journal with a faded violet cloth cover. It doesn’t take me long to…

Paradox And The Light

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Paradox and the Light
Paradox and the Light
Paradox And The Light

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Sep 16, 2021

Mythmaking and Magic in Modern Times

The catastrophe rages all over the planet. The long stories of multi-generational trauma, addiction, and destruction continue to play out on human bodies, animal bodies, and the bodies of the land Herself. And yet, in the midst of all of this, I find reasons for hope even when my logical…

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Mythmaking and Magic in Modern Times
Mythmaking and Magic in Modern Times

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Sep 7, 2021

Healing White Bodied Supremacy Through the Alchemy of Story

One of my favorite memes that I’ve seen recently is a picture of Helena Bonham Carter, ostensibly from a film where she looks wildly unkempt and raggedy. She is rustling around in the garbage. The line underneath is: “Me letting myself go to rock bottom because I know how alchemy…

Somaticwriting

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Healing White Bodied Supremacy Through the Alchemy of Story
Healing White Bodied Supremacy Through the Alchemy of Story
Somaticwriting

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Aug 30, 2021

Recovering from the Gods of Higher Education (to retrieve your soul)

I always said that education was God in my family. Despite the fact that I was pathologized and labeled as having ADHD (the “wrong” kind of learning style, according to the system), and despite my mother and other family members revering academia and having advanced degrees, it was my failure…

Education

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Recovering from the Gods of Higher Education (to retrieve your soul)
Recovering from the Gods of Higher Education (to retrieve your soul)
Education

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Aug 19, 2021

How Could I Be Anything Less Than Beautiful?

Radical Self Love as Medicine for Patriarchal Narratives On my 57th birthday, I wanted to post this current picture of myself and state something that I know to be radical in this culture: I have always known that I am beautiful. I’ve never had any desire to shave off years from my age. I’m aware that this understanding…

Self Love

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How Could I be Anything Less Than Beautiful?
How Could I be Anything Less Than Beautiful?
Self Love

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Aug 10, 2021

Am I Straight or Gay?

My Journey of Uncovering My Authentic Sexuality When I was 35 years old, I would have told you unequivocally that I was straight. I would have believed myself, and you would have believed me, too. I’d forgotten about the kiss and my desire for a woman from childhood and a college roommate. I’d pushed away the memories…

Somaticwriting

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Am I Straight or Gay?
Am I Straight or Gay?
Somaticwriting

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Aug 4, 2021

Three Things We Can Do to Survive as a Species

I know with every molecule in my being and every strand of DNA that ribbons itself back through time, weaving in and out of ancestral memory and into the center of the earth, touching the core and the root system of the dark mother, that humans are at an existential…

Somaticwriting

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Three Things We Can Do to Survive as a Species
Three Things We Can Do to Survive as a Species
Somaticwriting

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Nov 30, 2020

Ancestral Reparations, 2020

In the fall of 2019, I participated in an Ancestral Family Constellation session with a small group in Santa Fe. I’ve been doing this work for about the last dozen years and have had many powerful experiences retrieving my connection to my own lineage. This work actually led me to…

Ancestral

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Ancestral

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Sep 21, 2020

I Dissent: Reflections on RGB and Leaving No One Behind

Last night, the news arrives, RGB is dead. This morning, I awaken from a deep sleep praying the rosary. During business hours every day, I find myself whispering to the dead. We are living into a mass extinction, yet continue to behave as if the poles haven’t already melted, the fires aren’t already…

Reflections

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I Dissent: Reflections on RGB and Leaving No One Behind
I Dissent: Reflections on RGB and Leaving No One Behind
Reflections

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Jul 31, 2020

Skirting the Binary, A Crooked Kind of Love

By the time I was in my late thirties, I’d figured out that life had played a cruel joke on me. Based on the way I was wired, I definitively knew that I could never be fulfilled romantically and sexually with one person. …

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Skirting the Binary, A Crooked Kind of Love
Skirting the Binary, A Crooked Kind of Love

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Tanya Taylor Rubinstein

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Embodied Book Mentor www.somaticwriting.com

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