Category: Fear and Courage
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Two Tips on Navigating Difficult Times, Including Witnessing The Destruction of Gaza
Navigating new situations – from personal relationships to a genocide being unleashed onto our eyes, as our governments support it – is hard. I have two tips for you and two personal examples of how I’ve been applying them recently.
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It’s OK to Allow Yourself to Grieve During Genocide
As we’re witnessing a destruction of people at historic rates, it’s more than normal for our nervous systems to be deregulated. And it’s more than normal to carry a lot of grief.
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Something to Help You Navigate Difficult Conversations in Times of Genocide
To talk about, to navigate, and to allow ourselves to feel what we’re feeling about a genocide in Gaza is a lot. And although the real story here is the destruction of Gaza by Israeli forces, I invite you for a conversation on how we can handle tough conversations on this specific topic. It’s by…
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Let’s Get Real about Healthy Anger
To live our whole lives without learning about the importance of truly feeling our emotions can be literally lethal. I’m inviting you not to endanger your precious lives like that.
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Let’s Get Real about Struggling through Genocide
To live through an unfolding genocide is not normal. Let’s not normalise the atrocities in Gaza but let’s openly talk about not being OK, living through that, and the importance of use your privileges to build a base from which we can take meaningful action.
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What Are You Really About?
These past weeks have been extremely centering for many. But even if you’re not following what’s happening in Palestine and elsewhere, I think there’s a lot of value of asking yourself once in a while: what are you really about? What do you stand for?
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Mindfulness Lessons from The Lake (Wait, What, Again?)
How you FRAME your experiences is so so so important. And especially experiences that you choose to call challenges. So how can you frame them in a way that’s healthier? (…and what learnings can we draw from seemingly superficial experiences?)
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Tips on How to Care Less About What Others Think of You — By One Awesome Lady!
“Just care less about things!” is one vague and potentially cynical piece of advice to get. But how CAN we care less about the things that honestly don’t matter and can prevent us from being the kind, caring, brave, and silly selves? Mel Robbins has some suggestions that I truly loved and want to amplify…
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How Can You Deal with The Need to Form A Certain Image on Social Media?
Have you ever thought how you appear on social media, or, interestingly, how you’d LIKE to appear? If yes, it can be tough. There’s a lot to navigate. A lot to analyse. But I have some suggestions for you how we can do it in a way that’s healthier for us and that doesn’t sacrifice…
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You Don’t Need to “Make Sense”
You’re not a movie character: you don’t have to make sense to anyone. All you need to do is to be the real, silly, and authentic self. That’s what the world needs. And WE might need some reminders how to stay in our authenticity.