Queer & Spiritual

Decolonial Wisdom, Ancestral Lineage & Somatic Healing

Jessenia Nauta | somaCREATIVE™ Jessenia Nauta | somaCREATIVE™

Creative Burnout Is a Body Problem — How Somatics Saved My Creative Life After 15 Years in VFX

Creative burnout starts because we are conditioned to believe we need to push our bodies aside and pick them back up once we deliver our shots.

What I found was — you don't need an intensive practice. You don't need to figure out all the yoga poses. You don't need to go fully spiritual.

A simple practice of bringing breath back into the body and inviting your inner child is enough to wake up sensation. And honestly? I've become a better artist by learning to listen to my body.

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Your Body Remembers What Your Mind Was Taught to Forget

That version of me who got up from a staff job and said "fuck this, this is no longer the thing I want to be doing" — she was terrifying and necessary. She was the messy transformation.

People on social media share the final image. The clean version. The glow-up. What they don't show you is the in-between — the shaking, the not-knowing, the days where your body was the only compass you had left.

I'm here to show you the messy transformation. Because that's where the real information lives.

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Life Isn't an Expectation to Take Care Of, It's a Privilege

Fantasy is a fancy way of pretending to be alive while remaining dead inside. A reflection on commitment, Peter Pan syndrome, and why true freedom doesn't come from flying away — it comes from the roots you create.

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Why Compromise is Killing You

Compromise is a low-key racist way of saying abandon your needs because mine are better. For marginalized people, assimilation is slow bloodletting — and the world's restoration depends on you refusing it.

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Returning to the Moon: Decolonizing the Feminine

The feminine was never only a woman's. A queer, Indigenous reflection on why locking the feminine into one body is a colonial wound — and what trans ancestral memory is calling us to remember.

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On Making the First Step

Feeling stuck isn't a failure — it's a safe zone your body built to protect you. A reflection on what it actually means to make the first step, and why healing is less about fixing yourself and more about becoming who you already are.

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Creativity as the Backbone for Humanity

Creativity isn't a hobby — it's the blood that makes you human. A reflection on why reclaiming your creative life is an act of ancestral remembrance, and why the so-called minority is being called back into the majority.

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