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Healing is a Sacred Remembering

Explore writings on trauma-informed therapy, nervous system support, ancestral healing, self-love, and soul-rooted living.

Aleen Raybin Aleen Raybin

Why We Need Sacred, Intentional Spaces More Than Ever

A sacred, intentional space is:

  • A container with clear energetic boundaries

  • A place of reverence, truth, and shared humanity

  • A rhythm that honors slowness, emergence, and deep listening

  • A micro-community where everyone is invited to bring their whole self—not just their mask

In a sacred space, you’re not a client.
You’re a co-weaver.

You bring your medicine and your mess.
You witness and are witnessed.
You root into what is real, and you remember you are not the only one.

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Aleen Raybin Aleen Raybin

Energetic Hygiene: What It Is and Why It Matters

What Is Energetic Hygiene?

Energetic hygiene is the practice of tending to your subtle body, your boundaries, your field, your space.
It’s how you clear, contain, and reconnect to your own frequency in a world that constantly pulls you out of it.

If you shower, brush your teeth, or wash your face, you’re already practicing physical hygiene.

Energetic hygiene is the same thing, but for your soul.

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Aleen Raybin Aleen Raybin

Meet Yourself in the Chaos: Healing Doesn’t Begin When It’s Calm

We are living through collapse.
Personal collapse. Collective collapse.
Systems unraveling.
Histories repeating.
Bodies bearing the impossible.

And still:
We are expected to produce. Smile. “Stay positive.”
To keep going like nothing is happening.
Like our pain is a problem.
Like our overwhelm is an inconvenience.
Like our truth is too loud.

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Aleen Raybin Aleen Raybin

You Are Not a Problem to Fix: The War on Being Human

Systems Are Built to Deny the Body

The roots of this punishment run deep: through colonial conquest, industrial capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and ableism. These systems share a common goal: to sever us from our inherent wisdom and make us easier to control.

The body (your body) was never the enemy.
But empire had to make it one to survive.

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Aleen Raybin Aleen Raybin

Healing Was Never Meant to Be a Solo Journey

Modern healing culture will try to convince you that you have to do it all on your own.
That your success, your peace, your transformation are all up to you.
That it’s your fault if you fall off your practice.
That you should be more consistent, more healed, more resilient by now.

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Aleen Raybin Aleen Raybin

From Self-Improvement to Sacred Belonging

We’ve been conditioned to think healing is something we earn.

Do the work. Get better. Then you can be in community.

Only once you’ve figured out your trauma, fixed your nervous system, and gotten your life together—then you get to belong.

It’s the perfectionism of healing culture.
And it’s a lie.

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Aleen Raybin Aleen Raybin

The Revolution Will Be Co-Regulated

Why Co-Regulation Is the Missing Link

Trauma is relational. It fractures safety in connection. It disconnects us from our sense of belonging, our voice, our truth.

So it makes sense that the antidote to trauma isn’t more isolation… it’s attunement.

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Aleen Raybin Aleen Raybin

Why I Build Collective Spaces: From Isolation to Sacred Community

When I think about why I’m so devoted to collective spaces, why I center community, why I refuse to do this work in isolation, it all roots back to one of the most painful, clarifying seasons of my life.

January 2020, I had just returned from Hawaii, where I completed a two-year sacred training circle that I’d guided. It should’ve felt victorious. But instead, I came home empty and completely undone. What should have been an honoring left me in a full spiritual unraveling. A dark night of the soul.

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Aleen Raybin Aleen Raybin

Why Group Spaces Feel So Hard (And Why They’re the Medicine)

You’re Not Broken for Fearing Group Work

If the thought of being vulnerable in a group makes your skin crawl, your heart race, or your mind shut down—you are not broken.

This is not a personal failing.
It’s a protective pattern.
And it makes sense.

Because here's the truth:
Group spaces activate old wounds.
Visibility, attention, shared space—it all taps into deep survival programming.

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Aleen Raybin Aleen Raybin

You Don’t Need More Advice, You Need to Trust Your Knowing

In a world shaped by patriarchy, whiteness, and capitalism, we’ve been trained—conditioned—to outsource our authority.
We’re told to trust the doctors.
The therapists.
The gurus.
The coaches.
The step-by-step formulas.
The weekend certifications.

And while yes, training can be powerful and necessary—
The issue is: we’ve been taught to ignore our own truth in the process.

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Aleen Raybin Aleen Raybin

the lie of “I’m too busy” and what it takes to break free

The Deeper Truth Behind “I’m Too Busy”

When women say they’re too busy to show up for the thing they said they wanted, a program, a ceremony, a piece of their own healing, it’s rarely about time.

More often, it’s about:

  • The fear of what will rise when we finally slow down

  • The internalized belief that we don’t matter unless we’re useful

  • The nervous system defaulting to chaos because that’s what feels familiar

  • The training that tells us everything else is more important, everyone else comes first

This isn’t personal failure.
It’s cultural design.

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Aleen Raybin Aleen Raybin

Your Nervous System Is Not Built for This. Move Your Body Anyway.

Movement as Medicine in a World on Fire

Let’s name it:

The world right now is a lot.

In the U.S., and globally, we are navigating political violence, racial injustice, economic collapse, environmental crisis, genocidal warfare, grief on a collective scale, and deep personal unravelings.

It’s not normal.
And your body knows it.

So if you're feeling exhausted, hyper-sensitive, like you're about to snap or numb out completely:
You’re not broken.
You’re dysregulated in a dysregulated world.

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Aleen Raybin Aleen Raybin

Why Group Containers & Memberships Create Exponential Growth in Your Healing

Heal alone.
Parent alone.
Build alone.
Grow alone.
Be the strong one. Be the capable one. Be the “I’ve got it” one.

But there’s a different way.
A more ancient, more sacred, more sustainable way.

It’s called community healing.
And group containers, especially ones built on safety, truth, and shared power, can create exponential growth in a way individual work simply can’t.

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Coming Apart Together

Life is a lot. Humaning - even more. Liberation is a very tall order. And we need each other in so many ways. Let’s connect. See about how we may work together to open up whatever’s next.