🜂 Living Grimoire of Soul Alchemy: Embodiment & Sovereignty

🦷 The Toothless Truth Teller: A Rite of Release

“Some relics of pain don’t need to be worn to be remembered.”

There are moments when the body becomes a living archive — each bone, scar, and absence a page in the book of what we’ve survived. My missing teeth are one of those pages.

When the dentures were first made, they were meant to be restoration — a symbol of completion, of returning to what was lost. But the first time I put them in, I felt the lie. They were heavy, foreign, and loud. They clacked against my spirit like armor I never asked for.

It took me time to name it, but now I know:

They aren’t replacements. They’re relics.

And relics carry residue.

Each tooth that left my mouth carried a story — of grief, of overgiving, of years spent surviving instead of living. My body, in its wisdom, kept score when I could not. The dentures were supposed to erase that story, to polish over the consequence. But every time I put them in, I could feel the shame echoing back: You should have come first. You didn’t. And this is what happens.

So I stopped.

Not out of vanity. Not rebellion. But alignment.

Refusing to wear them became an act of sovereignty — a declaration that I would no longer carry symbols of guilt in my own body.

Now, I eat slower. Softer. More deliberately.

I savor what I can. I modify what I must.

And every bite becomes a prayer for peace — not perfection.

These gums have spoken truth that teeth could never shape.

They remind me daily that embodiment is not performance — it’s presence.And sometimes the truest smile is the one that doesn’t pretend to be whole.

This, then, is my rite of release:

to honor the loss,

forgive the neglect,

and live unashamed in the body that remains.

I am not unfinished.

I am unaltered truth.

🌒 Reflection Practice — Embodied Sovereignty

1. Find Your Relic:

   • Identify one object, scar, or physical change that still whispers shame or regret. Hold it in your awareness without trying to fix or justify it.

2. Name the Residue:

   • Ask gently, “What story does this carry that no longer belongs to me?”Let the first feeling — not the first thought — rise.

3. Reclaim the Narrative:

   • Speak aloud (or write):

     “I no longer wear the weight of what was. I honor its lesson and release its hold.”

4. Choose Comfort Over Conformity:

   • Make one small physical choice today purely for ease — not appearance, not expectation — just peace. Notice what changes when you do.

5. Witness the Truth Teller Within:

   • Every time you choose authenticity over performance, the body exhales.

That exhale is sovereignty.

✨ Closing Words

I used to think healing meant restoration — getting back what was lost.

Now I understand: healing is reclamation. It’s saying I will not fake my wholeness to make others comfortable.

So if I speak a little softer, or smile a little differently, it’s only because the words now come straight from the marrow.

No filters.

No façade.

Just me — the Toothless Truth Teller — grinning in full alignment.