House of Our Queer Healing, Reframing, and Reclaiming Your Spiritual Practice

Spiritual activist and educator, Bex Mu M. Edi, guides readers through healing, reframing and reclaiming their spiritual practice. "We in the queer community can be quick to reject. We reject and we push away, but we aren't sure what to put in place of what we reject, which can leave us feeling empty," Bex writes. Through her own experience being raised Catholic with Buddhist influences, Bex shares the complexities of being queer in religious spaces and the journey of coming back to her spiritual roots after shutting faith out for years. Spirituality gives people stability, trust in our intuition, and community with loved ones. "We need spiritual systems that center our own intuitions, and need spiritual language, ritual, community and connection that isn't rooted in patriarchal, cis and hetro-centric oppression and leadership," Bex explains as she gives readers a foundation for centering their queerness in a spiritual practice. She shares her own practices including energy work, astrology, tarot, ancestor altars, moon rituals, and sacred sexuality alongside reframed Christan practices and beliefs. Each chapter ends with offerings that readers can incorporate into their practice immediately. Often in spirituality, queerness is felt to be on the outskirts. What if queerness is at the center? What if we don't have to sacrifice our queerness or our pleasure to benefit from all that spirituality has to offer? Bex creates the foundation for reclaiming faith and spiritual belief without losing yourself.