To grieve means to really feel this moment, and all the moments that led to it, and all the fear of what it may mean. The prospect of feeling this all is too much, sometimes. But I think to feel it also allows love to that pain, that fear.
Read MoreI've developed a deep enough relationship with myself to know that I only feel sane if by the end of the day, I have exerted more physical energy than mental. Here's something that might help if you're like "Same, same."
Read MoreI thought this post was going to be me telling you about moving across country and building a third business and becoming a wife and going back to school and only pursuing the dreams that keep me up at night and creating new community on and offline and trying to heal myself and my family and undo years of generational trauma.
Read MoreMost people know that I’m obsessed with discussing the ways in which food and liberation are connected - for me, for my businesses, for us all. If you didn’t know that here’s a conversation with me and the folks over at New Black City.
Read MoreI’m reminding you that we can and should begin insisting upon our multiple selves to hold space for our multiple identities and all the parts of us that come along with that (and then all the sh*t that comes along with that).
Read MoreI have made peace with the fact that God is available to all of us. All we have to do is remember that we’re worthy. - I also attend church, again. Spoiler alert: none of my beliefs about myself have anything to do with what any other congregation member thinks about me or God or organized religion.
Read MoreI love SuperSoul because Oprah curates some of the best guests to help us wade through our spiritual stagnance. This episode with Byron Katie is a quick and fast introduction into how we begin to radically accept what is - how we begin to deal with (and I’d say move through) reality.
Read MoreHolley happens to be working from Lisbon right now! So this means I get to make my own meal - dinner for one! And apparently, this Valentine’s Day, I’m all about pasta! I think I’ve settled on this amazing looking Orecchiette with Mixed Greens and Goat Cheese recipe from Giada De Laurentiis at Food Network.
Read MoreValentine’s Day is great - but, honestly, this checklist is useful to come back to on any day we’re trying to sort through or understand how we are taking care of ourselves in our everyday lives. As we create space for even more authentic love, we develop our ability to learn even more about our interpersonal habits and the intrapersonal relationship we cultivate with ourselves.
Read MoreThe revolution will not be fulfilled by resentful martyrs. It can not be appeased by one or many lying, acting under the historically inaccurate and ever disproven guise of caring for others more than and before oneself. This, to you, I promise.
Read MoreI’m an individual that is at any and all moments almost at the place I’ve convinced myself I need to be while becoming the next version of my most high and best self and … even this sentence — ridiculous as I am — is exhausting. Honestly.
Read MoreAre you angry? Frustrated? Sad? Anxious? Perturbed? Disappointed? Etc.?
Try these simple steps to immediately changing your mood and situation
Read MoreI wonder if we are operating efficiently, or blinded and encumbered by complication?
When considering a simple form of learning involving the formation, strengthening, or weakening of an association between a stimulus and a response, I wonder.
Read MoreFor many of us, 2016 held an inescapable trope of loss.
Lost land, lost homes, lost value, lost strength, lost hope, lost loved ones - to death, ego, pride, greed, even indifference ...
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