Grieve and cry and rage because it’s all EVILLLL.
Then find a way to take action. It can be small if you need it to be. But find something to try and help. We are not meant to hold the entire world’s grief, we have to share the load together.
Find a way to aid in your community. Engaging with other people, especially in a helping way, really helps with depression and despair. It’s also a great reminder that there is GOOD in the world.
I’m scared too. I’m heartbroken. I can’t detach from it all. So, I’m practicing what I preach here. You’re not alone in it 💗
Jun 29, 2024
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On the hard days, especially days like this, I ask and beg to you that you do NOT carry your grief, sadness, and heaviest feelings alone. Turn to your friends, your loved ones, and most importantly, the communities you exist and participate in.
Community is not JUST the way we critique, mobilize, and take action: Community ensures that our grief, dread, anger, and feelings of hopelessness are not carried alone. Community ensures we are not paralyzed in facing the scale of our battles. Let yourself be supported, and let yourself mourn with others: only then can we summon the strength to keep moving forward.
There is still good, and there is still hope. It's up to us to know our neighbor and build it.
Nov 7, 2024
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Feelings are visitors- they come, we meet with them, they go.
Maybe a feeling is a guest for a while. Maybe we leave it in our inner home while we work, or play, knowing it’s there waiting. Then we meet with it again when we’re able.
It’s a delicate balance- on one end, stifling our feelings. The other, gripping onto them tightly to the point where we’re suffering. Ideally, we feel it to the point where there’s a natural emptying feeling.
I used to cling so tightly to my sadness, anger, grief. I wouldn’t let myself feel moments of joy, because I felt that would somehow take away from it. But when we are feeling those feelings so intensely, it’s actually imperative that we make space for Joy. Peace. Gratitude.
Sometimes we can’t do that- I don’t want to not acknowledge the very real experience of depression. I’m rather speaking to the many of us that are probably feeling a lot of hard feelings since the election. Make space for the things that feed your soul. Come back to what is right in front of you- the breeze on your skin, the falling of leaves, the creatures you love. Not all is lost. There is so much to fight for.
Nov 13, 2024
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I think yes mossyelfie has it right - small deeds, connect with your local community and friends, reach out and connect with people when you can. We are all in this together, to varying extents.
That being said, it is really really bad. Unprecedented. If you’re in the US, I would also say that reaching out to your representatives and state AG is important. They are the ones we’ve elected to protect and defend the constitution on our behalf, and we have to support and empower them to do their jobs, but there is no question it’s going to be hard.
I also thoroughly recommend being intentional about drawing barriers. Set time aside to stop scrolling, read a book, go for a walk and remember the world is still beautiful. Nature continues on. The world keeps turning.
Feb 5, 2025
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For some reason this brings me into my parasympathetic nervous system
Mar 28, 2025
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Humans have always danced. It is part of who we are, yet we have been conditioned to be self conscious, to think that we do not move our bodies good enough. Dancing is beyond judgement. Dancing is not a skill, it is our soul moving through our bodies, expressed in movement. Dancing is healing. Dancing is bodily autonomy. Dancing is FUN! Any feeling you are feeling can be moved through with dance yet even alone, you fear looking foolish. Kill the judge in your mind, shut the fuck up, and MOVE 🌊
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OH BROTHER THIS GUY actually needs a lot of empathy and understanding
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