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Responding to Injustice With Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn
Do our responses to social issues reflect trauma responses? If so, how can we help ourselves to help others better?
We Can’t Escape Real Life While Changemaking
We can’t escape real life while we are changemaking. The context matters. Let’s be aware of these four elements as we create change.
Loving Your Neighbor: Digging and Building Sandcastles
Loving your neighbor has a lot of similarities to digging sand and building sandcastles. I've had a lot of moments by the ocean to think about this recently. I've been going to the beach during or soon after it has rained. (To my surprise, I even got in the local news...
The Pausing Season: Reevaluating and Renegotiating Commitments
I texted the carpool mom, "See you at 8:45!" She wrote me back, "7:45! 😂 Back to the grind!" I guess have to get my head back in the game! Coming off the holidays, we went on a much needed anniversary trip. But, now it is time to hit the "grind" again and begin...
Social Change Ecosystems: Justice Daily S
Did you know each of us have different roles in social change? We all play different parts in doing good, based on our experience, skill, natural bent, and stage of life. Deepa Iyer has mapped out these changemaker roles to give us guidance as we make a difference...
Reducing Trauma’s Influence in Doing Good: Justice Daily – S2.E2.
How do we reduce trauma’s influence in our work of doing good? In this Justice Daily Interview with Michelle Stiffler, a trauma specialist, we learn about helping us endure beyond burnout and get real about Fight Flight, Fawn, Freeze
Notes From Birmingham Jail & 60th Anniversary of the March
Honestly, I've never read more than clips of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s works, even though I've talked them up. A major world-changer, Dr. King is mostly known for his "I Have a Dream" speech sixty-years ago during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. On a whim I decided...
Hypocrisy and the Love Your Neighbor T-Shirt
Why I couldn’t wear the “Love your neighbor” t-shirt and how we become.
A Road Trip Story: Accepting Kindness When You Rather Give It
How to accept kindness when you rather receiving it.
Leveraging your influence for good?
