Meet Sur Ren Dirt
WHO AM I RIGHT NOW?
Hello! I'm so glad you've landed here during this chapter, or season, of your journey with yourself. Here’s a bit about me:
Sur Ren Dirt is my name and I use they pronouns. I am a white, genderqueer, polyamorous femme witch, a poet, a life and spiritual coach, a human living with and learning about chronic illness, a lover of nature, PLAY, and my inner kiddos, equal parts living room and desert mountain ridge dancer, INFP and Enneagram 4w5, emotional manifesting generator in Human Design, to name a few things.
These identities are present at this moment and will continue to shift, evolve, and dissolve as I do this human life thing.
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
“Ren” is a name I lovingly gifted to myself in 2012,” and “Dirt” is a name that one of my sisters gave me back in 1997 or so. During a time of emotional and spiritual upheaval in my life sometime around 2017, I had simply written the word “surrender” on a chalkboard in my home. A deeply magickal soulfriend of mine, whom I have since parted ways with, visited my home one night and pointed out what lives in the middle of sur(REN)der.
There I was, right there all along.
A few years and a pandemic later, after several journeys into the far reaches of self, “Sur Ren Dirt” was born in early 2021.
WHERE IS HOME?
Though I have called many places “home,” I currently live in the states on unceded Nonotuck lands with my two feline familiars, one of which is pictured here.
I am actively working to dismantle and unlearn the things that whiteness and white supremacy have deeply ingrained. I know that this is a lifelong process and then some, know that BIPOC liberation means liberation for all, and prioritize this as I move through life.
My ancestors are from Sweden (Varmland area), Poland, France, Germany and other areas I am unaware of. I am working to connect to these roots as much as I am able to, in particular my Norse pagan roots.
WHAT DO THE STARS HAVE TO DO WITH IT?
Astrologically speaking, my sun is in Gemini, as is my Mercury, with a Pisces moon, Virgo rising, and Venus in Cancer.
Basically what this means is that I know a little bit of info about a LOT of things and want to share this with YOU, that my heart and inner world is tender and highly intuitive, that my true self (or what I am striving towards) has the ability to be highly analytical and organized with a drive towards community care and justice, and that I feel content nurturing and being nurtured in order to create a home space in relationships of all kinds, including with myself.
That’s just the tip of my astrological iceberg. If you want to get more Dirt, I’m happy to share.
WHAT DO SCHOOLING AND CAPITALISM HAVE TO DO WITH IT?
Schooling and work-wise, in case this matters to you, I attended public school as a child and teenager, then had the privilege to attend universities to receive an undergrad degree in Women’s Studies in 2007.
Since then, I’ve found myself floating around to different official “jobs,” from non-profit queer youth program management and summer camp directing to serving at coffee shops and restaurants to helping survivors of intimate partner violence access shelter to teaching 2-6 year olds how to play soccer to nannying. Fun fact: I had never played soccer before I started coaching. I bet watching the 6-year-olds kick my ass on the field was pretty fun.
In early 2023, after at least half a lifetime of receiving care and learning from coaches, therapists, and other healers, I went back to “school” at the Life Purpose Insitute to obtain my Certified Life Coach (CLC) and Certified Spiritual Coach (CSC) credentials from this ICF-accredited school. I became officially certified in July 2023.
WHAT KNOWLEDGE LIVES IN SURRENDIRT?
Lived knowledge-wise, my path has been winding and abundant, full of ebbs and flows, expansion and contraction. I have lived into my experiences as a genderqueer polyamorous femme witch, and have spent much of my adult life unlearning what I was taught as a child, though my inner children are some of my best teachers.
Chronic pain and shadow emotions have also brought, and continue to bring, so much knowledge to this body and spirit. The body KNOWs. It is where my intuition lives, and after nearly 4 decades, I am still learning the ways that it subtly communicates with me.
In particular, a life-changing diagnosis in late 2021, followed by a cascade of subsequent diagnoses, rocked my entire world. It is within that space of deep loss and grief, of debilitating pain and discomfort, that many of my offerings were birthed, including coaching, Danceground, my podcast, and Etsy shop.
WHAT KNOWLEDGE LIVES OUTSIDE OF SURRENDIRT?
Outside-of-Dirt-body knowledge has been offered and received from plant and animals and the universe in general. They all communicate with me in ways that I have slowly been learning to identify throughout the years. These things take time.
I also prioritize learning from, paying, and crediting Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and share these learning opportunities with clients in session, on my podcast, and on my Instagram @sur_ren_dirt_coaching
The rest of the outside-of-Dirt-body knowledge comes from people like you who I’ve randomly or not so randomly stumbled upon as we do this thing called life. I will LISTEN to and learn from you if we’re both open to it, and my hope is that you can do the same with me. I think we are all delivering messages to each other from the greater universe.