Your Imposter Syndrome Era is Over
Unleash your brilliance on the world
When I was born my parents named me after themselves.
Colonized people think their children are newer versions of themselves who will carry on the family legacy.
Colonized people don’t consider who their child is, outside the child’s connection to them. Colonized people don’t name their children after the child’s connection to life. Colonized children get made in the image of colonized parents.
As colonized children we get burdened with carrying on the family name, the family trauma, the family curse, the family shame, the family secrets. Everything that made the family miserable.
But many of us have outgrown the family lies, the family complacency, the family helplessness, the family resignation. Many of us were born to dismantle the family allegiance to oppression. All of us were born to be free.
For me, I needed a new name. One that could carry me past the place my family stopped fleeing oppression to set up camp in hell.
So welcome me! I outgrew Leanne Ruth Alaman, may she rest in power. The name Leanne was too small and weak a container to hold me. In November of 2024, I was finally gifted a new name in ceremony; Selahm (peace though pause), Skybird (the phoenix who has risen from the ashes) Beman (the wisdom and strength of the mountain), they/ them.
I greet you warmly in love and aliveness. I am here. I have done it. I rescued every part of me I previously abandoned. I experience my wholeness as a reality, not a goal. I experience myself as an ecosystem, not an individual. This experience is Liberation. I can show you how to reclaim your Aliveness - your Interdependence - your Ecosystem Perspective - your Wave Essence. Not in theory, but in messy, intersectional reality. You can become a Instrument of Mass Liberation. Not just for yourself, but for everyone.
Your Imposter Syndrome Era is over.
Your power has become uncagable, unmaskable, and undeniable.
People will call you “crazy” as you unfurl your power in daily life, but who cares what the happily oppressed think about anything? If they are not becoming bigger than tyranny, who cares what advice they have? If they are meek and compliant in the face of horror, who cares what judgements they hold?
We don't want their advice because we don't want to be like them. We want to be like ourselves; accountable, powerful, inspiring, helpful, joyful, liberated. If the unaccountable, weak, boring, unhelpful people think we are “crazy,” great!
That means we are not being complacent with them.
So today’s the day. Be even more free and even more powerful. The worst thing that could happen has already happened. You already survived being trapped in the endless hell of oppression.
The only way out is through the door marked “crazy.”
Come be “crazy” with me.
We’ll feel alive, not numb.
And the truth is, we are alive.
