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Honoring the ancestors as the veils thin—this means chocolates, favorite teas and potato chips left for departed ones. (Yes, you read that correctly. My maternal side loves a good salty snack.) 😂

Courage, dear heart. Oh I love this quote! I painted this watercolour, and I often paint what my soul needs to hear. Right now I need some hutzpah to get out of the god damn cocoon and fly already! It’s been a long journey. I’m pooped, frankly. But, oh, the freedom of flight beckons!! Just keep swimming! (Or flying...I’m mixing my metaphors here.) 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋 . . . Image credit: my own artwork/ downloadable print from @joyfulhummingbirdart

Nothing can stop truth—not even Mitch McConnell. Stand your sacred ground. ❤️ . . . . #brenebrownquotes #courage #believesurvivors #stopkavanaugh #iamasurvivor #speakyourtruth #womenrising #divinefeminine #femininerising #hope #shineyourlight #christineblaseyford #metoo #nomore

I wish I believed that stopping the abuse of people and lands could be solved with elections and protests. But after many years of doing the work on both the outside (I was a poli sci major and law school grad, for goodness!) and the inside (more therapists and years of therapy than I care to recount), what I’ve discovered is that the patriarchy starts and ends within me. I AM THE REVOLUTION. Me. My healing, my reclamation of my voice, my decision to transmute my pain and use it as a stepping stone to grow—it has caused radical and dramatic change that no politician could ever touch. The truth is that THE POWER WAS NEVER OUTSIDE ME. Nor is it outside of you! . Patriarchy wants you to be afraid, to surrender your power, to live in the toxic soup for so long that you betray your own self and abandon your own sisterhood. It wants you to seek love from outside yourself when in truth, you are love. .... I still have much work to do, but I won’t stop simply because it’s hard. Too much is at stake. I refuse to allow my daughter to be eaten and spit out by the patriarchy. I will not allow the young men in my extended family and community to believe their worth comes from exchanging their sacred masculinity for power and status at all costs. It ends with us, within us. We are not just casualties—we are also warriors! .. (P.s. I still vote. I still call Marco Rubio on the daily. But I will not let fear and despair sweep me away from the task of my own rising.) #divinefeminine #believesurvivors #audrelorde #iamasurvivor #iamalsoawarrior #divinemother #ibelievechristineblaseyford #withdrawkavanaugh #sisterhood

What do you think? Are we splitting the world open? Love to all who are speaking their truth, especially for the first time. ❤️ . . #believesurvivors #withdrawkavanaugh #metoo #imasurvivor #femininerising #divinefeminine #sisterhood #murielrukeyser #feminist #stopkavanaugh

It took me 35 years to publicly write the words that I had survived rape as a young girl. I wrote it in a little blog with a small readership, and it was still one of the scariest—and most liberating— things I’ve ever done. I’m in awe of #christineblaseyford’s courage. I’m equally in awe of how much has shifted in our culture in a very short time. I felt so much love today from my sisters. We checked in with one another. We posted notes of encouragement. We saw the power of joining our voices and kicking shame to the curb. . May all women air the secrets that our mothers and grandmothers had to keep hidden in their wombs. May we heal and liberate our lineages. May we continue to nurture each other in the process. Tonight, I raise a hot cup of tea in your honor. Sisters, we got this because we’ve got each other. #sisterhood #metoo #believesurvivors #stopkavanaugh #believechristine #nomore #healing #hope #iamasurvivor #whyididntreport #withdrawkavanaugh

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