SPELLWORK

Self Protection

Laurie Perez — Novelist
3 min readJul 21, 2024

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Boundaries are tricky. Attempting to ward off outside forces, you may easily fence yourself in. Trapped in a fortress, how will you receive uplift, gifts and blessings?

Yet, if you don’t find some means of deflecting toxicity, you’ll never rise to the central occasion of your life. Each personal triumph will be subject to undermining before it’s had a chance to build your hard-earned, elevated foundation.

So how will you do it? How can you enter a sphere in which you’re certain to be assaulted in one way or another (even if only by a memory — or your own shadow) and in that space become enboldened? When they insult you, fail to value you, dismiss or injure you, how will you enact self-protection without cutting yourself off from true nourishment and joy.

Remain fluid.

Cultivate sovereignty.

In the smallest moments, keep to your own current.

Cups
Overflow and circulate this silent,
Roaring clarity: I am protected

Love and light do not oppose or call for battle — rather they create.

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Laurie Perez — Novelist
Laurie Perez — Novelist

Written by Laurie Perez — Novelist

I write because I must. I publish because I love. Let's be stars to each other.

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