We Are Each the Victim, Warrior, and Villain.
Win or lose, the warrior is emboldened. She will die with faith on her lips rather than lick your boot for the drippings of the stolen feast.
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Rebecka Eggers
Shaman: Misuse of a Word for Intensity Without Intimacy.
What if we just let the mask of the shaman drop and reveal our own true depth? And the depth of our own displacement as human beings?
Breaking Quarantine: Handling Our Trauma Responses.
People keep breaking quarantine because the ANS, which controls our trauma responses, is compelling us to seek out others.
Carrying the Bones: Price of My Un-Belonging Is Death.
She carried me, bones and flesh, as best she could with no one left to hold her. She did her best to create the we from the tattered, broken I-ndividualism.
White Fairy Tales: When I Lost Abraham Lincoln.
My mother's poison killed too much awareness and shaped me with too much White privilege. But my reckoning with truth is more than theoretical.
Why White People Will Never Fully Understand Racism.
White people can empathize with this terrifying reality. But we cannot be inside the lived reality that forms for a Black man when the police approach.
Break the Trauma Bond You Have with the President.
In a trauma bond, nothing can be resolved productively. There is no such thing as conflict resolution through healthy communication.
Break the Ballerina Routine of an Endless Stillness.
The gateway to this 'togetherness' is formed of the bravery it takes to clearly, unambiguously hunger for someone as Durito hungered for the ballerina.
Remove the Mask of Your Trauma so You Can Shine.
There is every point to healing the pain of your past so you can actually move on to breaking various manifestations of trauma.
How to Activate Your Apocalyptic Passion.
Together, 'we' must liberate this 'apocalyptic passion' within ourselves and from the deadly stupor brought on by our own addiction to the give-up cocktail.