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❣️ My best pieces of writing either live in my heart or in my drafts so this one making it out of the thought purgatory feels special.

Over the last few months, I kept trying to explain a feeling I didn’t have words for. The fatigue of knowing I was cared about, and yet feeling like an island. Of someone being present but not meeting me where I needed to be met. I didn’t know what to call it until I started pulling the thread of an ache that seems to go deeper the more I pulled.

Attunement. And the absence of it.

It’s a long read, referential almost.

It covers what attunement actually is, why love alone isn’t enough, what gets in the way, and why building a relationship with yourself might be the most generous thing you can do for the people around you.

Longest thing I’ve published, and the most personal thing I’ve written.

You know me, it’s always all or nothing here. Leave me a comment if you feel it too 💌

📜 Full article on substack. Link is in my bio. taken in Toronto, Ontario by @notnatashaanwar

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4 months ago

We’ve found that this week [month? year?] has been a little extra… a lot. In honour of feeling our feelings to make room for our myth, we started a dumpster fire from some big heavy moments from our week and we’re making it communal.

Perhaps you could add some fuel to this glorious, raging fire by sharing your own emotional dumpster moment from this week in the comments below.

We’ve got 99 problems and we might just feel better watching one of them burn 😤

🔥 Go ahead. What emotional moment are you chucking in the communal dumpster fire this week? taken in Toronto, Ontario by @notnatashaanwar

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8 months ago

Last Thursday, Room for Myth hosted The Void at FOOT34 held at The University of Toronto.

We’d like to say thank you to the people who entered the space with openness, honesty, and self-trust. This experience only works when you are willing to slow down and stay present with what’s real while trusting that you’ve got what you need in this moment to hold it.

🙏🏽 Deep gratitude to @d.itto, and @sophiawhicher for holding this work with me at its pivotal moments, and to @foot_conference with their phenomenal organizing committee for creating a space where this kind of work can exist in tandem with other potent performances and presentations.

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🔑 Room for Myth is slow by design. Gatherings don’t happen often, and space is intentionally limited.

📫 If you’d like to stay connected as future spaces unfold, they’ll be shared here and you’ll see them coming first on our substack newsletter. The link to subscribe is in our bio. taken in Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse by @notnatashaanwar

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8 months ago

Today, Room for Myth is hosting The VOiD at the Festival of Original Theatre 34 at University of Toronto.

The VOiD is a structured, participatory experience designed for a time when we’re collectively experiencing pressure to become rather than be. The experience facilitates the discovery of personal language to express the pressure to decide, act, or move towards something to either escape or resolve the discomfort of staying with what is true right now.

This experience combines elements of somatic thresholds, and relational embodiment.

Lights, sound, pacing, and a card-based structure create a contained space where people speak from the middle of change and are met without interruption or interpretation.

Our capacity is 20 people, and doors close sharply at 2:15pm. If you’re a FOOT34 attendee, please sign up at the Performance Room to attend! We really hope to see you there!

We’re proud to be bringing our creative processing into a theatre context 🔑 taken in Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse by @notnatashaanwar

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8 months ago

When we’re in between versions of ourselves, things shift, break and change so often it’s hard to know if we’re holding anything real or tangible about ourselves.

Memories, identities, hopes and griefs float heavily past us in daily life, sometimes sticking to our skin like wet sugar.

Room for Myth designs experiences that help language and express our internal experience of this sort of identity transformation so that we can hold ourselves with others, even if briefly, before we inevitably return back to our everyday lives.

Leave a comment below to share a piece of what you’re holding today 🫀 taken in Downtown, Toronto by @notnatashaanwar

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8 months ago

Room for Myth hosts guided experiences to slow down, feel, think, and talk about things that are usually hard to name.

Stuck somewhere? Tell us where and we might have a gathering coming up to help you with that. taken in Toronto, Canada by @notnatashaanwar

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9 months ago