Trauma Fatigue and Our Response During These Times.
When the flight or flight response is in full swing, it can feel as though we are being carried away by an internal storm.
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Irony in the Time of COVID-19 and Social Uprising.
I am fascinated by irony. Totally in love with it. It is intriguing, baffling, infuriating, elucidating, and brimmed with absurdity.
Mourning. {poetry}
Last night I stepped outside of time Minutes became centuries Ten thousand years became right now And mourning the epiphany As clenching pain released...
Feel Injustice With All Your Senses in Order to Know.
The moment you see something with your own eyes and feel injustice with all your senses, you cross an inner border, you know you can’t go back from there.
Love Isn’t Complicity With Racist/Sexist Systems.
When you see people out there getting MAD AF in 2020, don't shrink away, enlighten yourself enough to see it as the truest expression of unconditional love.
Fight the Feminist Stereotype. {poetry}
When people think of the stereotypical feminist, their thoughts seem to turn to a beast of a woman. She is impolite and unshaven. In fact, she is unkempt in all ways. Since she thinks the world hates her, she hates men -- the sex that put her in her place. Yes, this is extreme, but after ...
The Other Side of Her Illness.
What they didn't tell her about the other side is that upon arrival, the journey isn't over. It's not the end of the road, and it's not somewhere over the rainbow. Every day she climbs a mountain of thoughts. And she has to descend, wading through them again, before the sun goes down so she can ...
To All the Women Who Love Fiercely.
Every single thing, big or small, that we go through, makes us who we are. Experiences teach us different things, you can either learn from them, or you can take those experiences and become someone you weren’t meant to be.
Surrendering To The Warrior Circle Within.
As we dance together in this connected exchange of power and control, we instinctively realize that we are not isolated from one another, even in our mistakes. We truly recognize that we are comprised of the wisdom and spirit bestowed by those who have committed to guiding our journey, and that ...
I Am Who I Am Because Of You.
So, no, you didn’t teach me everything, but you sure as hell taught me a lot. You taught me what it’s like to fight, and what I should be fighting for. You taught me what Saturday afternoons in love should be like. You taught me what midnights should feel like. And you taught me what waking up ...