It’s Time to Stop Being Helpless. Remember, You Are Magic!
My life has always been very colourful.
I was born on a tiny Caribbean island called Trinidad & Tobago. Between the age of 3-4 I was adopted by a family friend and brought to Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
My father shortly after became a world renowned author while my mother was a nurse in intensive care & my brother, who is 14 years older than me, left to be in the U.S Navy.
I’ve gained many skills within the arts such as piano, dance, singing, acting, painting & creative writing.
I have been lucky enough to travel with my parents and experience things like going to school in Kenya with children, riding the dog sleds of Alaska, climbing the Pyramids of Chichén Itzá in Mexico, climbing an erupted volcano named Diamond Head in Honolulu, Hawaii and more.
Although my early life was filled with privilege and opportunities I still underwent major abuse from mainly my mother. Before either of us could resolve our relationship, she passed, and I was left to deal with all the trauma that I had been ignoring for 25 years as well as the grief that followed.
Since 2017 I have slowly built my awakening desire to know how to handle my pain, my grief, my anger, & myself as a whole.
The struggle with my identity, which I acknowledge originated after being adopted, having my name changed, my hair cut and not being reminded enough of where I came from, slowly became the tool I needed to remembering who I am.
The pain I felt played a huge part in pushing me in that direction.
Another huge part was staying creative.
Piano was the first thing I got into at the age of 3. By the time I was 15 I started teaching to children, which was one of the best jobs I’ve ever had.
From there I started diving into dance, painting, acting & writing.
All of these gave me something to hold onto through my dark years and I thought it was me holding onto the ways that I expressed myself or the ways that I dealt with my stress, which are all still true and valid but through my development I’ve come to realize that I was holding onto me.
The essence of me.
Creating is so important in this world. Art is so important in this world.
This world we live in is ALL art & creation.
WE are all art & creation and we have the power to create the world we want to live in.
To learn this level of trust within yourself and your surroundings is no easy task, especially when we enter a world that is designed to make you question and disconnect from yourself.
Nobody knows you better than you.
Nobody knows what’s best for you besides you.
But when we become disconnected and we just do things because we’re on auto-pilot, not thinking AT ALL,
“what am I really doing in this present moment?”,
we miss out on the very magic that we’re bringing into this world.
We’re missing out on the magic that this world already has to offer.
And this is what I am here to change.
We can no longer live in this collective fog, not understanding who we are, what we are, what is happening around us and how we affect everything.
We can no longer live in this world of blind slavery.
We are here to create, to live & to love. Not to answer to somebody else’s desires.
You are magic. Remember that.
<3 Cydney
Healing Hertz
