In my closing episode of the season, I invite you to be honest with yourselves about what’s occupying your head, heart, and soul.
I don’t mean the things we choose to carry unnecessarily. There are PLENTY of things we can choose to actively work towards NOT carrying.
I mean the big, beautiful, meaningful, and oftentimes heavy things that we carry.
I also invite you not to push anything down but to create space for those states.
“Easy to say…” – I know! That’s why I share a simple (cheesy? also) exercise that has helped me personally accepting that my heart if occupied with more than before these days.
I am wishing you, too, to take your hearts seriously ❤️
And thank you all for sticking me throughout this weird, sporadic (and not as planned at all) season of Investigative selfism 🙏🏾
Justina
PS. Find my political work that I mention so often here.
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