"...and we cannot metabolize a three-term career until staffers name how the Kavanaugh hearing lived in their body," a Capitol Hill somatic practitioner told a huddle on Saturday.
The huddle followed reports that former Arizona Republican Jon Kyl had died. He served three terms and shepherded Justice Brett Kavanaugh through confirmation.
A caucus wellness budget had retained her for the afternoon, a contractor paid to treat politics as bodywork. She ordered a six-hour listening session for anyone who felt legislatively gaslit by a judicial confirmation. Attendance was called voluntary and also a duty of community care.
We are not memorializing power. We are asking power to notice our nervous systems.
Aides were told to treat that confirmation as a rupture in the national nervous system. They had to draft six impact statements on originalism as a trauma response. The Constitution was invited in as a stakeholder with unmet needs. Facilitators called this the only ethical eulogy a confirmation workhorse could still receive.
