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Community Care and Self Care During Election Week

Elect means to choose:
First things first! No one has the right to coerce or bully or manipulate you into voting a certain way, or shame you after. You are allowed to keep your vote private - even fr

What we’re reading this weekend: Visualizing Palestine. Because everything we work toward is first imagined.

“I leave the door to my room open, so the words in my books,
the titles, and names of authors and publishers,
could flee when t

Let’s talk about Love-Bombing and how it’s used as a tactic of coercion and abuse.

Why is love bombing so confusing?
The confusing truth is that it looks a lot like what happens when we’re falling in love.

Are you experiencing th

Your weekend journal prompts:

🧡Rediscovering Joy: Think about a time in your life when you felt truly happy and free. What were you doing? How can you bring some elements of that joy into your life now?🧡Identifying Triggers: What situations, word

All together:

🧡My voice, experiences, and feelings matter.
🧡I am moving forward every day with courage.
🧡I am healing at my own pace.
🧡I am allowed to put myself first.
🧡I am proud of how far I’ve come.

For support along the journey:
I

Carol Hanisch’s 1969 essay, “The Personal Is Political” first sparked a phrase often returned to by many intersectional feminists over the years.

We are therapists; we are deeply pro-human and therefore deeply anti-fascism. We see

You may be unfamiliar with this type of DV!

What is Financial (or Economic) Abuse?

- Controlling or restraining a person’s ability to acquire, use, or maintain economic resources to which they are entitled. -DOJ

Financial abuse is a common

“Don’t we want to be able to imagine the expansion of freedom and justice in the world? …We will have to do something quite extraordinary: We will have to go to great lengths.” -Angela Y Davis

She goes on further to say, &ld

Some journaling for a blustery evening, or to save for another rainy day:

1. Reflect on Your Strengths: Write about a moment when you showed courage or resilience during a difficult time. How did that experience shape who you are today?
2. Reclaim

Recommended Resources

Books

The Gifts of Imperfection: Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be and embrace who you are. by Brene Brown
You are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, shame resilience, and the Black experience. edited by Tarana Burke and Brene Brown
The Body is Not an Apology: The power of radical self-love. by Sonya Renee Taylor
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate politics. by bell hooks
The New Rules of Marriage. by Terry Real
Why Won’t You Apologize?: Healing big betrayals and everyday hurts. by Harriet Lerner, PhD.
Come as You Are: The surprising new science that will transform your sex life. by Emily Nagoski, PhD
Ethical Porn for Dicks by David J. Ley
The State of Affairs: Rethinking infidelity. by Esther Perel
The Awakened Family: How to raise empowered, resilient, and conscious children. by Shefali Tsarbary

Podcasts

Esther Perel’s Where should we begin
Brené Brown’s Unlocking Us (Favorite episodes are: Burnout, Apologies, Shame & Accountability, and Radical Self-Love)
Dear Sugars: Emotional Labor: The invisible work (most) women do
Emily Nagoski & Amelia Nagosiki’s The Feminist Survival Project (Favorite episodes are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 13)

Articles

Rachel Eddins, M.Ed., LPC-S, CGP- Emotional Regulation Skills to Cope with Difficult Emotions: 7 skills to practice today
Carolyn Steber- How to Get Out of a Highly Controlling Relationship

Videos

Emily Nagoski- How Couples Sustain a Strong Sexual Connection for a Lifetime
Esther Perel- Rethinking Infidelity…a talk for anyone who has loved.