Julie Jewels Smoot

My Body Is My Home and Sacred Temple honors the journey of returning. Not returning to who you were before the trauma. Not returning to a perfect version of healing. But returning to the understanding that your body still belongs to you. This piece explores the possibility that the body is more than a container for wounds. More than a record of what happened. More than a place where pain resides. The body is also resilience.

One breath. One moment. One day at a time. We Did Not Leave is a reminder that there are places within us that continued to exist through every challenge, every transition, and every uncertainty.