Bright Star / An Education

Written By Cristy

Here I muse over two period dramas that struck me on the pains of young adult love and growth ❤️ 

This Jane Campion film, Bright Star, is so beautiful. I admired Franny's character for her conviction and the ways in which Keats makes her a believer in the beauty of love.  My favorite scene is when Franny collects dozens of butterflies and lets them loose in her room because Keats writes in a letter how he wishes they lived but three blissful days together, free as butterflies, than a lifetime of painful separation.  I remember reading Keats in high school and feeling that his sensitivity resonated so deeply with me.  It was so satisfying to see this portrayal of him, to understand his muse and the poetic context for inspiration, despite or perhaps because of the tragedy and illness that shadowed his short life.

Oh how I envied the costume design on this film, An Education. I adored the 1960's chic wardrobe. Jenny's character is bridging to the adult world by dating an older guy, as the boys her age start to pale in comparison. Shifting from the banal family/school paradigm to coming alive to a world of with color, the schoolgirl idealization inevitably is a fantasy.

My favorite scene was when her father opens up to her regarding his own shortcomings and the pressure he had been placing on her because of his own fears to be in the world. A charming coming-of-age story.

Cristy

Hola, Piyali, Hello! I am a queer Latina Chicana mestiza ((detribalized Caxcan/ Iberian colonial) mother, storyteller and decolonial somatic psychotherapist licensed in California with fourteen years of clinical experience in the field of depth psychology. My private practice, Imaginal Therapy + Sacred Arts, centers soul care and offers ketamine journeys. I am a graduate of Loyola Marymount University, Pacifica Graduate Institute and the Hakomi Institute of California. I specialize in intergenerational trauma, healing the family soul for personal and cultural transformation, and psychedelic/entheogen integration. I work with clients in a holistic approach to connect to collective wisdom through imagination, intuition, mindfulness, embodiment, dreamwork and creative expression. My treatment focus is on relationship, cultural wounds, trauma resolution, ancestral lineage repair, animist parenting, kinship ethics, and reconnecting to the sacred.

I am a certified Ancestral Lineage Healing practitioner and also an initiated serpent medicine keeper and priestess in sacred arts with 8 years of training. As a ritualist and coach, I offer virtual mentoring and circles globally. I am steeped in my traditions, mythology, cultura and roots, originally from the villages of Juchipila, Zac, Mexico, born and raised in Tongva lands, Los Angeles, residing on Nisenan land, Sacramento. My lineage gifts are in storytelling, dignity, sweetness, relating to the spirit magic of bee, deer, maize, and cacao. I have been given the medicine name, Cloud Serpent. I am honored to reclaim reverence for my mother mountain, Tlachialoyantepec, a sacred site. I hold a vow with my people to live the repair, in service of the anima, mundi, the world soul.

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