What Language Does Freedom Require?

From We Outside · 01:16:38

Show by New Seneca Village

What if the language we use each day is quietly determining the futures we can imagine?Hiba Haroon joins Ain for a conversation about the words, rhythms and habits that shape our relationship with time, Spirit and ourselves. Hiba brings the perspective of a writer, artist and healer who understands that language does more than describe our lives. It teaches us how to inhabit them.The conversation begins with the stamina many of us developed to survive and opens into a softer question: What capacities will actually carry us into freedom?Time becomes timing. Homework becomes home play. God becomes a verb. There are cats, death and some truly strange dance moves.This episode invites us to loosen our grip on force and listen for another way forward—one grounded in surrender, play and the possibility that what the day needs from us matters more than how much we complete.In this episode:What surrender makes possible How language shapes our relationships with spirit, time and one anotherWhy our movements need words that can hold the futures they seek to createHow softness, ease and play expand our capacity for transformationWhat claiming uncertainty and not knowing can teach us that performative expertise cannotHow intention, repeated practice and surrender work together to change how we liveWhy freedom requires us to reconsider the words, binaries and assumptions through which we understand realitySacred Shoutout LinksHiba : Her cat Bobo (and all of her cats)Ain: Their dogs, Bijoux and SegaHiba's Bio: I am a daughter, sister, friend, writer, artist, and healer. I believe in the interconnectedness and wholeness of all beings and non-beings and our capacities to create, grow, nurture, release and heal. I am the founder of (un)jaan (www.unjaan.com), where I weave diverse healing modalities to guide individuals communities through deep processes of unlearning, repair, and reclamation to heal the wounds of colonialism and cultures of supremacy. This fall, I will begin my Ph.D studies in Somatic Psychology.Connect with Hiba : [email protected] Seneca Village is a restorative residency experience that invites leaders and healers to access expansive resources (time, space, access to nature, restorative practices, intentional community and higher consciousness) for the sake of nourishing and sustaining their collective visioning for a just future.We Outside is hosted and produced by Ain Bailey and produced and edited by Podglomerate.Follow We Outside wherever you listen and leave a review to help more people discover these conversations. Join us on Instagram or LinkedIn to share what sparked something for you, what questions you are carrying and what you want to hear more—or less—of.

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