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What to do when you lose a battle

You gave it your everything. You pulled from the core of your being, because you couldn't stand the idea losing to the opposition. And yet. You wake the day after, exhausted, and you drop to your …

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Category: Resources, Self-CareTag: activism, battles, losing, sustainable activism

Looking for inspiration? Check out Rants and Randomness with Luvvie Ajayi

Y'ALL. I just discovered the BEST THING. Ok, ok I just got around to finally doing what I should have done ages ago, but it was fantastic. It went like this: Luvvie Ajayi (also known as Awesomely …

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Category: Inspiration, Laughter, Self-CareTag: Glennon Doyle, Luvvie Ajayi, podcast, Rants and Randomness, review, Self-Care

How to support our Black sisters?

Lotsa talk about Black woman as heroes these days. They've really been bringing the fight, and for that I am grateful.* *(really they've been doing it for a while, but it's just lately they've been …

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Category: Self-CareTag: activism, Black Lives Matter, racial justice, Self-Care, sustainable activism, white guilt

When our superpowers hurt us: How to cope with vicarious trauma?

When I was 8 years old I boasted to my best friend's father that I had superpowers. "I'm telepathic!" I declared, "When other people hurt, I can feel it." He laughed, gutted me with a shrink-ray of …

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Category: Self-CareTag: activism, compassion fatigue, empathy, Self-Care, sustainable activism, vicarious trauma

Winter is here. You must keep the bonfires blazing…

Winter is here. If you're a Game of Thrones fan, that reference will work. Me, while I love me some GoT, I'm also from New England. We know winters. And the hard, cold times are here. You can feel it, …

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Category: Inspiration, Self-CareTag: family separation, immigration, outrage fatigue, radical self-love, Self-Care

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Are you addicted to being busy?

How many times have you done this: a friend asks how you're doing, and you spill out a laundry-list explanation of how very very busy you are these days? Is this how most of your conversations start? …

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Category: Self-CareTag: busy, radical self-love, Self-Care

Girlfriend, Hiding is NOT Self-Care

I've gotta get something off my chest. Someone I know said that she isn't following a lot of politics because it's her version of self-care, and she wants to avoid getting pissed off on a regular …

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Category: Inspiration, Self-CareTag: activism, anger, hiding, Self-Care, woke

When Comparing your Privilege Serves No One

We have gotta learn how to be gentler with our good selves, dearhearts. How often have you said to yourself, "It's awful what I'm going through but so many people have it so much harder"? How …

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Category: Self-CareTag: duality, fragility, human experience, imperfection, perfectionism, pity poker, privilege, radical self-love, strength, zero-sum game

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Why Art and Activism are BFFs

Mac and Cheese. Peas and Carrots. Bread and Butter. Art and Activism. Some things just go together, don't they? Why is that? Have you ever noticed that wherever you see an activist movement at its …

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Category: Art, Dance, Music, Poetry, Self-CareTag: activism, Art, balance, canary in the coal mine, Dance, Glennon Doyle, Music, Self-Care, writing

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Politics is not a Dirty Word

You got that lecture when you were young, didn't you? You can't mention three things in polite conversation: money, politics, or religion, they told us. Well, I'm calling bullshit. Money, …

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Category: Resources, Self-CareTag: activism, hard conversations, politics, shame

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