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A Thank-You Relational Reflection
A gentle pause for the end of the year This reflection is offered as a thank-you for being here. It’s not meant to fix anything, resolve anything, or prepare you for a better version of yourself. It’s simply an invitation to pause, notice, and take stock of how your...
Before January begins: an invitation
As the year comes to a close, I want to take a moment to name something clearly and give you an honest invitation. Every December, many of us quietly decide what we have the energy to carry forward… and what we don’t. What we’ll stay connected to. What we’ll step away...
Have you ever smiled at racism?
Have you ever had to hold a smile and a conversation during active racism? When it's the only location where you can buy the thing you need to buy because you aren't knowledgeable enough to go to Amazon and get it on your own, you have to hold a smile and a...
Engaging vs Investing
One thing I’ve focused on in these online conversations across difference is engagement vs investment. Lots of us are so invested in an outcome that it’s impacting our abilities to healthily and strategically engage. This is why I offer consulting to help people do...
Deep Relational Work for Change
I initially wrote this post after I shared a social media post about a white supremacist protest in Farmington, New Mexico. I looked at the photo of the people gathered in the protest and I wondered if people they knew - family, friends, etc - saw them in the picture...
Most Sexual Assault Survivors have said these words & know this feeling.
This post contains affiliate links and is going to reference the experience of sexual assault. It includes a reference to an article discussing surviving and attempting to hold a person accountable for sexual assault. "I just kind of froze like a deer in headlights,...