The Bloom is Slow: Honoring Divine Timing in Liberation
How rushing mirrors supremacy culture, and how patience roots us deeper.
🌬️ Before We Begin: Settle into Your Bloom
Find stillness.
Feel your breath land softly in your belly.
Notice your spine. Your pulse. Your presence.
Breathe in — I am not behind.
Breathe out — I am not late.
Breathe in — I release the urgency to arrive.
Breathe out — I choose to be where I am.
Whisper gently to yourself:
“The bloom is slow—and so am I.”
The urgency we’re taught to embody isn’t neutral—it’s inherited.
It’s a feature of supremacy culture designed to keep us reactive, fragmented, and disconnected from our bodies.
It turns movements into moments and activism into performance.
It demands speed over depth, optics over impact, and productivity over presence.
Now, we begin.
The Bloom is Slow: Honoring Divine Timing in Liberation
We live in a culture obsessed with speed.
Produce. Pivot. Perform. Heal faster. Grow faster. Learn faster. Unlearn faster.
It’s capitalism in liberation clothing… and it’s a lie.
Because real liberation isn’t fast.
It’s not linear.
It’s not a checklist.
And it damn sure isn’t something you can post about and be done with.
Liberation is slow. Blooming is slow.
Not because you’re not committed, but because your soul is sacred.
Because your nervous system deserves care.
Because your lineage is long, and your healing is layered.
And rushing?
Rushing is the residue of supremacy culture.
Why Supremacy Culture Fears Slowness
Let’s be real: rushing is often fear in motion.
It’s fear that if we don’t move fast, we’ll be forgotten.
That if we don’t speak now, we’ll lose the moment.
That if we don’t have the perfect words, someone else will name the truth before us.
But rushing is not clarity. It’s survival.
It mirrors the 15 pillars of supremacy culture, the ones we name, notice, and dismantle in this work:
Urgency: “If you slow down, you’ll fall behind.”
Perfectionism: “You can’t rest until it’s perfect.”
Only One Right Way: “Healing must look like this.”
Progress is More: “You should be further by now.”
Defensiveness: “Why am I not there yet?”
And yet, the Earth has never rushed.
She blooms in rhythm. She rests in winter. She composts, decays, renews.
And so must we.
This Week’s Root Reflection: What’s Trying to Rush Me?
Let’s get honest.
Who told you growth must be fast?
Where did you learn that stillness meant failure?
When did the bloom become something you had to force rather than feel?
This week, the practice is to own, not just your growth… but your timing.
Own your need to pause.
Own your cycles.
Own your right to bloom in your own time.
Because slow is not stagnant.
Slow is sacred.
What if the pace you’ve been taught to fear… is the very rhythm that’s meant to heal you?
Inside this piece, we’re slowing down to root deeper into:
Why divine timing isn’t avoidance, it’s alignment
How slowing your liberation journey dismantles supremacy’s urgency
Embodied ways to reclaim your rhythm across Self, Home, and Work
Journal prompts to help you name the pressure—and release it
A somatic ritual to soothe the nervous system into trust
If you’re ready to stop rushing your healing and start trusting your becoming…
Let’s keep blooming—slowly, and together.
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