Withdrawn Wednesday.
With a touch of childhood wonder.
Bonjour my dear Sailor, bienvenue back !
I really missed my own digizine β and the self proclaimed Mermaidβs Imaginary Island weβre all browsing in: threading around my feelings, musing, wants and needs. My home is your home, welcome.
Mimi from #SALT is so back! with all my chest to open to our world. Thanks to you (!) for wondering with me.
Donβt you feel moved by your own heritage?
By the airy bonds between you and your ancestors? You and your siblings? Itβs something often sticking with me, a cancer rising. Iβm my own mother and my own child. Iβm an angry woman. I carry traumas from generations I never met, and I have to break free from it.
I can break free from it.
Naturally, I instructed myself once about epigenetic scientific research. I donβt recall the bookβs title because it was two summers ago.
Chat, can you summarise the epigenetic research for my blog?
Hereβs Chat answer, helping me, a trying multilingual blogger to sound clever:
Epigenetics: What We Inherit Beyond DNA
βEpigenetics is the study of how environmental factorsβsuch as stress, trauma, diet, or exposure to toxinsβcan influence gene expression without altering the DNA sequence.
Scientific research has shown that some of these changes can be passed from one generation to the next.
This means that certain experiences lived by our ancestors may leave biological marks that we carry today.
Similarly, the way we live now can affect the epigenetic information passed onto future generations.β
What led me to wonder what my ancestorβs journey was?
My genealogy is plagued by islands.
I have that strong need to return. To live almost naked, sun gazing a little too hard, tanning and swimming in the first force, the first flow: the divine sea surrounding me, carrying my body like an almighty mother.
Whatβs in the Wannabe Mermaidβs Bag?
Sheβs part ocean myth, part modern muse: and her bag tells the tale.
Sunrise tinted sunglasses.
The strongest SPF on market paired with tanning monoΓ― from Tahiti. Sheβs full of contradictions!
A salt spray hairmist, beachwaves check.
Dried roses petals from her own garden to gift strangers and loved ones along the way.
A tarot deck in a crochet pouch.
Shell comb, shell jewels, moonstone gemsβ¦
A modern walkman with a Lana Del Reyβs cassette.
CBD flowers and rolling paper.
A marine perfume, clean & natural.
A heart locket with a ghostly, undiscernable man face.
Itβs comforting knowing what you like, what youβre like. To know that everything is always bending, shapeshifting, evolving, is never as quiet, as simple as overlooked. When people look at the sea on the surface they still fear the deep. The mysterious. The unknown.
Searching for the unknown. I want to shapeshift, I want to be water.
~ Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Bruce Lee.
Ah, glorious day !
Itβs the seventh of the month of May, and I come back to myself and to my soultribe slowly. Iβm in that chase, and I can attract but Iβll still run after my birthβs rights.
βO Stella Maris, light of every ocean and mistress of the deep, guide your children on earth across all dark and stormy seas, that they may reach the haven of peace and light prepared in him who calmed the sea.β St. John Paul II.
I want to share with you all of whatβs in my mind lately, because you, too, choosing me, are also my soultribe. Ready?
My eyes stumbled upon the news that it is Mental Awareness Month. I wasnβt aware!
I had to wait 3 months for my reimbursed therapist meeting prescription. Iβm aware in France I have the luxury and luck to access health care that actually reimburses its patients but still, it is so hard to pursue your health sometimes.
Since Iβm an active caregiver of my own, I still pursue it, no matter how hard it is or even as expensive as it can be. Health has always been a luxury but weβre in an era where it is more accessible if you do the correct research. Begin to be the pursuivant of your own riches, an active caregiver of your divine vessel.
Your soul is in the now, attached to your body, why wouldnβt you give a chance to the therapist office?
~ A little trick to have a better experience is when the therapist office is nice enough to unfold behind pretties curtains.
Also Iβm proud to announce I'm in my CBD era! My addictions are sickening my soul, poisoning my essence. I want to return, as I previously confessed. Itβs time to be responsible, Iβm soon 29. Happy Saturnβs Return or whatever Ariana Grande ever said.
If youβre overcoming any addictions, Iβm so proud of you, youβre the greatest.
Last but not least, next year in May, Iβll be sipping agua de coco, feet covered by white sand, tanned and happier than ever for my very own best friend's wedding, if everything goes according to Godβs plan.
Destination? Guadalupe.
Stay tuned because I have a lot to do on my plate before taking a forever changing flight. Whatβs in my bag for a Paradisiac Island, maybe? With my pictures, this timeβ¦ From Pinterest to the iCloud real quick!
In other news, Iβm finally able to transparently talk about my break up.
Iβm searching for my own flat right now, itβs exciting by nature but also very stressful because Iβm in a liminal space as we speak. Iβm working a part time job and I found extra hours at a restaurant. Iβm living a sort of waitress core, living wage core I would not wish on anyone.
If growth is uncomfortable, Iβm growing so much it hurts.
But Iβm being great, greater at being a loner than at being a girlfriend.
I have many dreams I donβt want to spoil or expose to soon, if they concretise sooner or later #SALT will celebrate whatever small or big victory in my life.
I want to be my very own main character, let the story load: Iβm re-coding my ADN and abilities. Bet! Iβm open to science, holistic methods. Iβm open to God and Iβm oozing hard onto the symbols. Trying to unfold the truth.
#SALT agenda for the future:
Letβs talk about #SALT future and present.
Holding a brand is not that easy but following a concept is also deeply rewarding. Iβm expanding my creativity through restraints β But Iβm lucky enough to hold the concept of the sea, the tasty, the tangible. Something so identifiable, you canβt really remain indifferent about SALT.
I want #SALT to boost the cultural impact of the souls and essences I am attracted by, my own curated creatives yearbook. If it catches my attention so quickly, it could touch yours forever too. Letβs meet each other, letβs art fuel us wider!
#SALT is also a ship between the world. You all are rare spices to me, and I want to carry all of you to your ideal destination.
If you want to submit a piece of work (poetry, photography, short movie, wellness essayβ¦) that could fit into our publication, join: salt.magazine@outlook.com !
The team is actually working behind many interviews between Mimi and creatives that catches our curiosity.
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.Yours truly,
Mimifromsalt, with love.
Youβre soooo creative Omg and was so happy to read the word epigenetics again π₯Ή reminded of my thesis days