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Using Personal Stories to Build Collective Healing and Resilience
In recent months — or perhaps, years — I've found myself gently, and sometimes painfully, parting ways with places, people, and parts of...
Masa Hilcisin
2 days ago4 min read
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The Body Knows: A Soft Guide to Creative Rituals
Lately, I’ve been softening deeper into my body—learning to let it lead, to let it speak. Not through theory, but through sensation,...
Masa Hilcisin
May 293 min read
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How Breath, Movement, and Stillness Unlock Deeper Stories
For a long time, I didn't understand these practices—breath, movement, stillness. Not truly. I would often feel a quiet resistance rise...
Masa Hilcisin
May 283 min read
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Simple Somatic Exercises to Tap Into Creative Flow Before Filming
As an artist and educator who has spent years within the walls of art schools, I often return to this tender question: What makes a...
Masa Hilcisin
May 233 min read
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Ways We Exclude Ourselves (Without Meaning To)
Recently, I found myself tangled in a familiar heart-knot. I had been invited to a birthday gathering — a celebration of someone dear to...
Masa Hilcisin
May 93 min read
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The Forest Knows: A Birthday Reflection on Change, Fear, and Becoming
This week, I celebrate my birthday—not with loud candles or crowded rooms, but with something quieter, more intimate. Recently, I found...
Masa Hilcisin
Apr 282 min read
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A Letter to the Woman I Silenced
I’ve been searching for wilderness. Not just in forests or mountains, but in gazes, in gestures, in forgotten corners of everyday life....
Masa Hilcisin
Apr 243 min read
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Stories Our Inner Children Still Tell
A love letter to longing, belonging, and becoming our own sanctuary Recently, I spent days with dear friends — whose presence feels like...
Masa Hilcisin
Apr 233 min read
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Family Taboo
I recently listened to a friend speak of her mother—a relationship wound tight in thorns. She spoke in hushed tones, ashamed of the...
Masa Hilcisin
Oct 23, 20241 min read
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Home, Belonging, and Rootlessness
They say a home is not a place, but the feeling that lives within the walls we build with love. My family was once whole—then slowly, it...
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Oct 22, 20241 min read
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Have you ever been paralyzed by the loss of a loved one?
November brought silence I didn’t know how to hold. My dear friend —the one who held my deepest truths —was gone. She had a heart wide...
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Oct 17, 20242 min read
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Silent Treatment
It’s often defined as “a refusal to communicate.” But to the heart, it feels like exile —a quiet severing, a wound without a bruise. The...
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Oct 17, 20242 min read
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