Integritus Prime

My latest book channeled during the Bioneers 2024 conference. I was seated in the third day’s plenary, and had to run out to write up the book. It was a different one in the sense it was healing me as I wrote it. The book is a mini memoir about my identity and how to reconcile it in the face of environmental stewardship and indigeneity. It’s called Belonging: A Mini Memoir on Displaced Indigeneity and Allegiance to Ma Earth.

You see, for a long time, I’ve been treated as if I don’t belong.

In this brief book, I outline ways of tracing your own identity and feeling at home as you are. I do it through four inquiries:

1. Injuries: I chronicle seven of my own injuries relating to identity over the course of my life, highlighting how I’ve felt that I don’t belong. These injuries have offered me the opportunity to claim my identity in a way that overcomes outside attacks and finds strengths through an inner foundation.
2. Clues: I go through seven clues that shed light on how we bring ourselves to the world. These clues can guide us toward a clearer picture of who we are.
3. Actions: I highlight seven actions that can heal and elevate us to the highest and most actualized level of who we are.
4. Learnings: I posit a new definition for how to belong, and link it to 17 learnings that I aim to embody in my life moving forward.

If you’ve ever felt misunderstood, mistreated, and rejected, this book may help you figure out how you can belong, no matter what. Check out the book if it is of interest, and let me know your experience.