this substack is different, because it's simple.
highly sensitive, genderfluid, autistic with adhd, black, mixed-race, disabled artist (dancer/ poet/ digital visual artist/ filmmaker)
If we were all born blind, the first organisms to evolve photosensitive cells would probably seem crazy. Waking Heart is a series of thought experiments, intuitions, and tales from a Buddhist psychologist.
Memoirs on life that lives in the liminal space, what it really means to โhealโ, and what you notice when you find the courage to slow down. Written + curated by anthropologist, holistic herbalist, and human, Heather Saba.
Getting to know grief by getting to know grievers. Getting to know life by knowing that it ends.
prayer offerings seeking to arrive at divine love. a love letter to life and all the connections that move me in this human experience.