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.

Many healing spaces are built around the idea of intervention. Fix the symptom. Correct the emotion. Reduce the anxiety. Resolve the trauma. Achieve calm. Transform quickly. Even in wellness spaces, people are often taught to approach themselves as problems needing immediate solutions.