spotlight levi kreis
Quit bitching and get tough! No one has to like you, but you have to love yourself, deeply and meaningfully. You have to give yourself permission to be great. You have to live authentically and unapologetically. You have to work hard and make life happen on your terms…Period. Only you can give yourself that kind of lasting love. Self-love is my number one sermon to every young person coming up behind me. Our happiness depends on no one else but us, to think otherwise would be to insult your own personal power. And you, dear one, are more powerful than you know. In your opinion, what is the one thing people can do to help create more harmony and peace—right here, right now? Oh, goodness: Forgive, forgive, forgive.
Good question! If there is one thing I seem to come back to over and over,
if not simply for my own reminding, it is the challenge of having a daily spiritual practice. Whatever one believes, whatever one’s “higher power” may be, I do think it is important to connect every day. My ex was more agnostic, for him, nature walks were his way of connecting with something greater than himself. I believe that is personal to each individual. The challenge is making it as consistent as we do the gym, or other self-care behaviors. Our life really does shift when we address our spirit on a daily basis. You’ve been very open about your experience with conversion therapy. What would you tell someone who advocates the idea that spirituality and sexuality don’t coincide, or that being gay is wrong, sinful, or at very least, a distraction to spiritual growth? I’m very committed to having a spiritual conversation
within our community. I understand that a great deal of our community has been wounded by religion and it was the source of my many pains. Not only the six years of conversion therapy, but in my life, I have experienced real discrimination: I have been denied education by a southern Baptist college, I have been denied employment countless times… All for being gay. The thing any young person should know is this:
32 RAGE monthly | AUGUST 2017
As someone who is still working on forgiving a certain person in my past, I will not pretend it is easy. Resentment clogs up our finances, our relationships and our abundance. It’s a cancer that eats up our body. Want to discover the fountain of youth? Forgive—always—every night before you go to bed. You’ve accomplished so much. But, in some ways, do you feel you’re really just starting out, with more to accomplish? So much, that I feel overwhelmed.
But for me, I think it’s the aspiration to understand the world I now live in. Because I don’t. But one thing I know from my past—coming out, using my music to speak out and fight for myself, my people, my equality—music led me to clarity. Music led me to my truth and music will continue to do that very thing. To be continued.
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