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The chants will get quiet.The hashtags will slow.The adrenaline that surged through the streets will soften… hopefully, into something else, quieter, heavier, truer.
This is the part they don’t teach you about revolution: the aftermath.The roar cracks open possibility. The quiet teaches us how to live inside it.
After the No Kings March, I could feel the collective body vibrating, not just from outrage, but from awakening. The roar of the march didn’t just echo through the streets; it rippled through our bodies. For some, it reignited hope. For others, it reopened grief. Every step was a somatic prayer, every chant a reminder: we are not powerless. But the body, like the land, can only hold so much before it asks for rest.Every movement worth remembering must also learn to rest, to regulate, to return.That’s the work of this Season of Descent, learning to live after the march, not just for it.
1. The Roar Was Necessary, But the Quiet Is Sacred
The roar made you visible. The quiet makes us sustainable.
When the shouting stops, the silence can feel disorienting, like withdrawal from urgency.But silence is not the absence of action; it’s the space where meaning metabolizes.If the roar was the inhale of the movement, this quiet is the exhale.
Supremacy culture taught us to fear the exhale, to equate pause with failure.But we’re unlearning that.The nervous system, like the land, needs cycles of action and integration.
Reframe:
Protest is how we declare our freedom. Stillness is how we sustain it.
Reflection:Where in your body are you still holding the roar?Can you trust that what’s growing now doesn’t need to be loud to be alive?
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