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Feeling Your Feelings: Where Transformative Justice, Chaplaincy, and Recovery Converge
“It was oddly comforting to know that whether in TJ, chaplaincy, or recovery, the same challenges kept surfacing: holding deep emotions without letting them take control, practicing empathy without self-abandonment, and staying grounded when everything felt destabilizing. For so many of us doing those first two things require a dismantling of internalized policing and interpersonal policing that is so counter to the society we swim in, feeling debilitated is a logical response.”
Pods for Our Current Moment
We are in a political moment that is exacerbating a deep contradiction: we will need each other more than ever before and we are still fully engulfed in a heavily-documented epidemic of loneliness that seems to get more acute with each passing year.
New Year’s Resolutions and Practicing Accountability
A new year is almost here and millions of people are thinking about the resolutions and intentions they want to set. I enjoy the collective reflecting, visioning and dreaming of this time of year, as folks take stock of their lives and themselves.