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It's been quite a while since I posted. It is so easy to get swept up in the chaos of holiday events and year-end work even without a pandemic. This is permission to take a much-needed break.

Your Permission to Give Yourself a Holiday Break Trust me: It will all be there when you get back

This article is great at explaining how our brains are struggling with the chronic stress of this pandemic and gives some ideas for adjusting coping strategies in a sea of the unknown.

“Your ‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted — It’s Why You Feel Awful” by Tara Haelle

Your ‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted — It’s Why You Feel Awful Here’s how to pull yourself out of despair and live your life

We can't edit out negative feelings without editing out ALL feelings.

Gwynn Raimondi, MA
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To feel pleasure we need to come back home into our bodies. Or for some of us be in our bodies for essentially the first time in our lives. And this means feeling all the sensations of our body - pain, anxiety, discomfort and pleasure, peace, and comfort. We can't experience one without the other. We can't pick and choose which sensations we are going to allow ourselves to feel and which we aren't. It's an all or nothing type of deal.

And in order to really feel pleasure, peace, and comfort in our bodies, we need to first go through the initial discomfort of beginning to feel them. This may seem like an oxymoron, and yet it is part of the process.

You can read the full essay here:: http://gwynnraimondi.com/the-pursuit-of-pleasure-while-living-with-complex-trauma/

We will also be exploring this more in Embodied Writing:: Pleasure

http://gwynnraimondi.com/embodiedwritingpleasure/

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In a time of a lot of change, this is an empowering way to view the process of growth.

We are in the midst of the greatest collective awakening.

We’ve been forced to look at our shadows + the shadows of our society in a way that we’ve never done before.

When we look at our shadows there is always pain, confusion, + rage. It’s a palpable energy you might feel in the form of anxiety, sleeplessness, or physical pain.

To wake up is not some esoteric “monk-like” experience. Waking up is simply expanding your consciousness, becoming aware, + having a realization of your own ego. An ego that keeps you repeating behaviors that began in childhood when these behaviors were a way of survival.

To leave this unconscious, autopilot, survival based state, we typically need to reach a breaking point. A bottom. This bottom pushes us to go inward. To pay attention. To shed the conditioning of the false self to embody the truth of who we’ve always been.

Awakening causes a ripple effect. As we alchemize our pain, our trauma—into purpose, we’re naturally drawn to help others do the same. We then are the living examples of moving beyond scarcity, beyond power/control dynamics, to abundance + cooperation.

We see others as limitless. Powerful creators. And we support + uplift them, rather than engage in destructive behaviors. Because we fully embody the truth: what we do to another, we do to ourselves.

What stage are you feeling you’re on?

This is a great list of resources for white people who want to do their anti-racism work.

Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources This is a working document for scaffolding anti-racism resources. The goal is to facilitate growth for white folks to become allies, and eventually accomplices for anti-racist work. All of these resources have been sourced from other Google docs, or articles -- we have simply reordered them in an...

"Denouncing symptoms of the disease without treating the root cause is bad medicine."

The Psychology of Rioting: The Language of the Unheard Denouncing symptoms of disease without treating the root cause is bad medicine.