Liberatory Anger: Weekly Art Making for the Revolution
Throughout the last few months I have witnessed escalated policing of the expression of liberatory anger within multiple communities. There has been tone policing, oppressive and racist stereotypes, and listening only to those who use the dominant privileged ways of speaking (such as "nice", "calm", "fair", or perceived as "peaceful" or "logical and rational").
Engaged Spirituality: Weekly Art Making for the Revolution
As we continue trying to live through this time of multiple genocides, climate crisis, and the destructiveness of imperialism, I've been reflecting a lot on spirituality and spiritual practices. Specifically what role spiritual practices, leaders, and community can take during this time to help us on the path of liberation. As well as the harmful role I more often see it taking instead.
Ancestors: Weekly Art Making for the Revolution
Growing up I heard very little about my ancestors. We are white, and my family taught me that we are Irish, French Canadien, and Blackfeet. We had a family tree that that no one ever talked about. The only stories told involved the living - we rarely spoke of or acknowledged the dead. And even then it was only a sentence or two, and one generation back.
New Year, New Practice: Weekly HSP Healing Arts Prompt
As this year closes, we are living through profound violence and suffering in this world. Many of us feel heart-broken, enraged, and helpless witnessing the multiple genocides around the world. Additionally, the devastation of colonization, imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, and the resulting climate change, is affecting everyone.
Are you a People Pleaser? Relationships for HSP and Empaths
As someone who is highly sensitive and/or an empath, you are empathic, intuitive, creative, and highly attuned to others. However, these natural gifts mean that you may also be susceptible to people pleasing!
LGBTQ Empaths: High Sensitivity and Hypervigilance
Queer is Sacred. Trans is Sacred. We are Sacred. Make this your heart affirmation.
5 Ways to Set a Boundary: for Empaths & HSP
As an empath or highly sensitive person, the idea of trying to set a boundary may feel uniquely scary and challenging for you! Yet boundaries are a key aspect of the journey to self love and becoming a joyful empath.
How to Ground as an Empath: 3 Easy Steps
As an empath, or someone who tends to pick up on and absorb the energies and emotions of others, it can be challenging to know how to ground. You feel pulled into the feelings and experiences of the world around you. You get overwhelmed by the sheer force and magnitude of anxiety, pain, and suffering that seems to be everywhere. Even feelings of joy, happiness, and love can feel overwhelming when they aren't yours!
How to Set Boundaries: Self-Love for Empaths & HSP
As an empath, intuitive, or highly sensitive person, it can be incredibly challenging to set boundaries.
Grief: Making Space for Feeling
This past year and a half has been so, so much. For most of us, it has been a traumatizing time. Filled with fear, pain, and grief. Especially since you may have lived through experiences you never imagined possible. Perhaps you lost someone, or even someones, unexpectedly and without saying goodbye. People you love dearly and/or with whom you had a complicated history. Or maybe you ended friendships and relationships, leaving what no longer serves. Or you moved away from what was once your home, seeking out a place that could nourish your soul better, or be closer to people who are beloved by you.
Healing as an Empath: The Sacred Path of Self Love, Part 3
For the last two weeks, we have been exploring the Sacred Path of Self Love. We began by looking at where we can get lost and disconnected from it, even if our upbringing was largely loving and warm. Then we explored what it means to be on the path, what that can look like, and why it is a life-changing necessity.
Healing as an Empath: The Sacred Path of Self Love, Part 2
Last week we began this journey by exploring how we can become disconnected from the Sacred Path of Self Love. How our most sacred and precious gifts of empathy, intuition, and sensitivity can become lost in the shadow sides of over-responsibility, boundary loss, and service as sacrifice.
Healing as an Empath: the Sacred Path of Self Love, Part 1
Self Love is a Sacred Path.
Yes. I said it.