Logan McDowell for BOUNDiful BLESSINGS Video Testimonials

Speaker: Logan M.

Logan M.: So the bountiful blessing. 30 day cohort has definitely improved. My mornings, every day we wake up at 7 30. I've never had any kind of ritual in the morning that has stuck. But every single day we're connecting with each other, we're talking with each other. Um We're recapping our days before and it has really given me a better sense of how to check in with myself, relay my emotions in a way that um makes sense to me and also makes sense to others and also just hearing other people's experiences like strangers who I've never met, but connecting with them on such a deep and personal level has been really refreshing and I just, I've had a, I've had such a good time. Um We start the day with our affirmations and each affirmation that we've gone through so far has just hit so close to home because it really is tapping into all of our personhood in a very unique way. But it's, it's a general, but it's still personal to each one of us. Um For example, uh one of my favorite ones who has so far been authenticity and we just speak affirmations of being a our most authentic self. And for me, it has allowed me to take beats throughout my days and really remind myself to lean into the things that are unique to me and have allowed me to be great. So, and it's 30 days

Logan M.: If I could describe bountiful blessings in three words, it would be safe, transformational and inspiring.

Logan M.: Bountiful blessings, I think is unique in its offering to the world because there are not many other healing practices that are incorporating uh micro dosing with rope with a black and Brown centered space with trauma inform uh trauma informed uh practices at the root of it. There's so many things that are being offered in one compact hour every day that I feel has such long lasting uh effects, especially for me, I think that being able to experience something that is a physical interaction, you know, we're doing these meetings virtually, but with the rope and being able to have a tactile sort of uh experience with other people across, you know, states across countries, even you're able to kind of have a physical connection with each other. And I think that with the micro dosing aspect as well, it allows all of us to tap in a little bit deeper than, than just a normal, I think conversation would do. So we have journaling Incorporated, we have um essentially talk therapy. We have group therapy uh in, in a way it is not technically group therapy, don't get me wrong, but uh it's very therapeutic and the conversations that we have is, is very, it's very, um it's a very courageous space that we're, we're in where we're able to express um some of our fears, some of our traumas, some of our successes there is every day, there's something new that everyone gets to share. Um And even for the folks who are not comfortable sharing or speaking, there's still space for them to listen and to hear other people's stories. And in a way, the healing that's taking place each day, little by little is still in a concentrated package where we are doing all of these things over the span of 30 days. So we're really just sort of um piling in a lot of emotion in one space. And I think that outside of other things that I've personally done with many years of therapy with um being involved in the kin community, being involved in the polyamorous community. There are things that are happening that are geared towards healing. But the intention behind this, I feel is extremely laser focused on black and brown people healing through transforming what rope means and what it means to be bound and what it means to be um tied up. And a lot of the ways that we're interacting with the rope, it's not even actual ties. A lot of it is just feeling it, touching it, becoming familiar with it and rewriting the narrative of what being bound means. And for me, it definitely feels like using the rope as a somatic device to wrap myself up and be embraced, to be secure, to be um to be connected to myself. I feel like the rope has really done that. For me, the micro dosing has

Logan M.: My experience working with Xir Oya as a facilitator has just been so it's been so good. It's felt like a warm hug every morning. They come in to the zoom room usually in something really cozy, usually sipping on some tea and depending on what the affirmation is that day, they will either hype us up with some really like bomb music that it'll really just get us going whether it's like courage or uh what whatever it may be or bringing the tone down and soothing if it's healing or, you know, hope or something like that. And they have this beautiful mystical shaman esque curation to their process that allows each affirmation, each affirmation. There's 30 very different affirmations. Now, mind you, each one is an entire paragraph that is very dense and it's very filled, but they're each different. But somehow Xir Oya finds music that fits each individual affirmation is able to ride the waves of all of our emotions can reel us in when need be and really just take every single one of us on a journey. I think that their background and their history with music in different genres really allows for there to be this, this, this breadth of really incredible choices that are brought in and we're exposed to new music. We are able to hear songs that we per me personally would never associate with a song. But hearing it altogether, it makes sense and it allows this space for um another layer of understanding and embodying the affirmation because when a song comes up that we've listened to act like during the day of an affirmation, I can say, oh yeah, I need to be bringing some more joy into my life or yeah, I need to be more authentic in the way that I, I show up in my, in my life. Um And they do an incredible job of really just reeling at us all in and taking us on a journey. And it has been, it has been so lovely to just wake up and see everybody's face and see their face and know that we're all safe in this collective agreement of, of showing up and we are all in good hands. So that's been a beautiful experience.