about third way with bekah
A newsletter for people who’ve left their old certainties behind and are learning to live in the open field. Essays on embodied spirituality, compassionate living, and the third way through — published at least three times a month.
Dancing in the field beyond right and wrong.
If you’ve ever been exiled from a belief system you once loved — a church, a political movement, a version of yourself — you know the particular loneliness of that open field.
No map. No tribe. No clear enemy to organize against.
Just you, trying to figure out how to keep caring about the world without the armor of certainty.
That’s where I write from. And if you’ve found your way here, I’m guessing it’s where you live too.
I’m Bekah Giacomantonio — somatic therapist, dancer, student of the ocean, and perpetual practitioner of the very things I write about. I’ve been honorably discharged from evangelical Christianity and the activist left, and I’ve spent the years since searching for a third way: one that’s brave enough to stay in the room with people I disagree with, honest enough to name what’s hard, and embodied enough to actually feel the difference.
I write personal essays and dispatches on feral bliss, compassionate living, and what it looks like to choose love without abandoning truth. Not from mastery. From practice — from failure after failure in real situations with real people.
In my work as a somatic therapist, I help people do this in their bodies. Here, I do it in writing. Sometimes the two blur together in ways I find irresistible.
What you’ll find here:
Essays on bravery, pleasure, grief, and the messy middle.
Dispatches from daily life — ocean swims, long walks, meditation cushions, difficult conversations.
Reflections on Buddhism, bodywork, and collective liberation.
Invitations to practice alongside me.
This isn’t a newsletter about having figured it out.
It’s a newsletter about refusing to give up — on the world, on the people in it, on yourself.
Subscribe if that sounds like home.
