There may yet be hope... #pray #intend #visualize #affirm #domagic #lightacandle #writeyourlegislators #PhoneBank #savehealthcaresubsidies #savelives www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

DAY 9 of #SpiritInAction – SEAL THE ACTION CIVIC: Make your final calls or visits to your legislators. Post your final appeals online. SPIRITUAL: Offer your day as prayer & promise: “Healthcare is sacred. We will not let it be destroyed.” #SaveTheACA. #ProtectMedicaid.

DAY 8 of #SpiritInAction – SEND A UNIFIED VOICE CIVIC: Gather with others & focus in a moment of silence. Then phone-bank legislators. Let them feel the pressure of conscience. SPIRITUAL: Light candles, ring bells, or sit in silence together for nine minutes. #SaveTheACA #MedicaidMatters.

Day 7 of #SpiritInAction — RAISE THE DEADLINE 🗓️ “Nov 1. #SaveTheACA. #ProtectMedicaid.” CIVIC: Repeat it everywhere: your conversations, online feeds, tags. SPIRITUAL: Build a small altar around calendar day 11/1 — light a candle & focus prayer, meditation, or intention there. Lives depend on it.

DAY 6 of #SpiritInAction – LIFT UP HEALERS CIVIC: Thank doctors, nurses, & caregivers; bring cards & gifts for staff/admin at local hospitals/nursing homes. Post to social media & tag your legislators. SPIRITUAL: Hold vigil for HC facilities at risk of closure. #SaveTheACA #MedicaidMatters.

Day 5 of #SpiritInAction: Write & Witness ✍️ CIVIC: Use your voice — write, post, speak out: “We are six days from losing healthcare for millions.” SPIRITUAL: Pray, do ritual, visualize, or intend your words move hearts to act. #SpiritInAction #SaveTheACA #MedicaidMatters

Day 4 of #SpiritInAction: Stronger Together. CIVIC: Ask your group, school, or congregation to speak up for healthcare. SPIRITUAL: Hold a candlelight vigil, online or onsite. 1 action per day, multiplied by thousands. Download all 9 days: bit.ly/47GzDar #SaveTheACA #MedicaidMatters #PeopleOfGoodWill

#SpiritInActionForHealthcare Day 3: SHOW UP LOCALLY 🕯️ CIVIC: Visit legislators’ offices w/ letters, petitions, photos of loved ones who depend on care. Let media know what you're doing & why. SPIRITUAL: Hold vigil: act in love & urgency. #SaveTheACA #MedicaidMatters #PeopleOfGoodWill bit.ly/47GzDar

#WhyDoesHealthcareMatterToMe? Family = microcosm of nat’l macrocosm: #cardiaccare, #eldercare, #genderaffirming & #chroniccare. Relatives will die w/o #accessiblehealthcare. #SaveACA #MedicaidMatters @repkweisimfume.bsky.social @alsobrooks.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @govwesmoore.bsky.social

#SpiritInActionForHealthcare Day 2: Flood the Feed 💬 Civic: Post why accessible healthcare matters to you. Tag your reps + local media. Spiritual: Light a candle and send energy for protection for those in danger if healthcare coverage is cut off. #SaveTheACA #MedicaidMatters #PeopleOfGoodWill

9 Days to Save Healthcare Day 1 – Sound the Alarm 📞 Call your senators & reps: “No cuts to ACA or Medicaid. No one should lose care because Congress failed.” Pause — pray, visualize, or focus your intent. Care is sacred. Full 9 days: bit.ly/3Jk1W65 #SpiritInAction #SaveTheACA #MedicaidMatters

How shall we view #suicide? 1) #Endstigma [ #shamekills] 2) Adopt a problem solving p.o.v. (suicide is a desperate attempt to solve deep pain). 3) Keep an open mind (it's not that there are no solutions, but [they] aren't apparent). #CBT #ChoosingToLive #ReachOut ~ThomasEllis linkly.link/2Fj0R

"Many [victims of #intangibletrauma] suffer fr #despair so profound they feel 'they might as well be dead.' Many battle... #anxiety, #depression, even #rage. Feelings of #dread, #panic & #exhaustion ...make everyday livng feel like tap-dancng in a minefield." ~ Ricia Fleming #CPTSD linkly.link/2FfBE

"Get curious about yourself & your experiences w/ [emotional] #dysregulation. #Neuroscience widely acknowledges that your incredible brain can change through simple #mindfulnesspractices." -- Danie Harris/Regulate Me Now bookshop.org/a/109848/979... #CPTSD #complextrauma #DBT #mentalhealth #selfcare

“If you want to get out of hell, you have to get #thruthefire to the other side. You’ve got to find courage to go thru your #anger, open up to your therapist, #keepgoing thru the #pain. It isn’t ovrnight that you are going to feel better. But you will.” #HealingJourney #DontGiveUp linkly.link/2FWDj

“We’re in such a #hurry most of the time we never get much chance to #talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondring years later where the time went & sorry it’s gone. ” ― R.M.Pirsig /Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance linkly.link/2FFeD

Transformational morning reading from Rob Brezsny's book of magic, #Pronoia Is the Antidote for #Paranoia. Words to give #hope in these days. #joyisachoice #live linkly.link/2FBvi

Like everyone else I've been moving thru stages of #anxiety, horror, & #grief, seeing the destruction of #democracy, a #socialsafetynet, or #environmentalprotection. But lately something has helped me to ground myself, take a deep breath, & put myself back together. #DivineLove linkly.link/2FE34

This. Powers-that-be that hold our gifts in scorn do not negate the value of those gifts. #YouAreIrreplaceable #AllBeingsHaveAPurpose

I asked #DeenaMetzger, “Being sensitive to all you perceive, how do you not despair?” She said: “B/c...we are doing what we are called to do & that has to be sufficient. And because — I don’t want God to despair too.” #WeAffectTheWhole #DivineOneness #DivinityoftheSpeck #panentheism bit.ly/4nvdylT

"When you [grow up loved], you care for yrself in a way the unloved do not. Their addictions & destructive behaviors are searches for the feeling of being loved, a feeling they never had." -B.Siegel, fwd, "How I Stayed Alive When My Brain was Trying to Kill Me"/Susan Blauner linkly.link/2F9zF #Self💗

In this #SuicidePreventionAwareness Month, sharing my own story of #choosinglife, taking a step beyond the scars of #CPTSD with the imagery of #ProjectSemicolon. #StayHere #HealingIsPossible #PostTraumaticGrowth #EndStigma linkly.link/2F88U

"If you're a #survivor of #suicide loss... or if you want to walk alongside someone who has lost a loved one to suicide...As someone who has walked this dark night of the soul before you, this is what I want you to know: Don't give up. Don't *ever* give up." - Rita Schulte linkly.link/2F83O #HoldOn

"If we fail to let #pain be pain – and our entire #patriarchal culture refuses to let this happen – then pain will haunt us in nightmarish ways. We will become pain’s #victims instead of the #healers we might become." Matthew Fox / Original Blessing linkly.link/2F6F1 #PostTraumaticGrowth #StayHere

"Step out of your history & into the path of your #future.... the #pain was necessary...to know the #truth. But we don't have to keep the pain alive...to keep the truth alive." ~ Bruce D. Perry / What Happened to You? Conversations on #Trauma, #Resilience, & #Healing linkly.link/2F3Zf #TruthHeals

Now more than ever. Speak up for transfolk. Be an ally, supporter, advocate, friend. Parents' resources: bit.ly/4mfLi58 Family & friends: bit.ly/3VOeqFK Youth resources: bit.ly/4ny1UWN and bit.ly/3ImNXfg @trevorproject.bsky.social #suicide prevention: bit.ly/47Idytx

" #Suicide & its copilot, #depression, are mysterious...mystery is part of their power. Talking abt #mentalillness & suicide reduces their power. So I've raised my head as high as I am able, to speak as unflinchingly as I can abt losing my son..." #STAY Blackbird / BetsyStephenson linkly.link/2F0dx

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” -- E.B. White

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”

The force of anti-life is the same. The only difference is how we respond: whether we are blinded & deceived, paralyzed & surrender, enraged & lash out — or whether we recognize the destroyer’s energy & resist, reaching for life & light. #SuicidePreventionAwareness #Stay linkly.link/2EtQd

"And there it is: the storm of #grief that you thought you cd never access or release, that resisted all your stories b/c it arises beyond all stories. The storm you feared b/c if you once allowed it, you feared it wd never end. It won’t last forever; it will end." #GriefStorm linkly.link/2EtPW

In #dialecticalbehaviortherapy ( #DBT), the balance is btw #change & #acceptance.... to change the behaviors in your life that are creating more suffering for yourself & others while...accepting yourself the way you are. #CPTSD Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Wkbk/MatthewMcKay linkly.link/2EqMa

Excellent advice from Heather Cox Richardson. We don’t all have to do the same thing. BUT EACH OF US HAS TO DO SOMETHING!

"We were full of #love as newborns, &....the love w/in does not diminish. But we all lock much, or all, of this love away deep w/in us. We need to learn how to let it out....We learn to love fr each other." Love From Heaven: Practicing Compassion for Yourself & Others/Lorna Byrne linkly.link/2EcFN

"We want to #gohome. We want to find our #purpose, our right place, the right people to live & work w/, the right #work to do....We want to find our #spiritualroots. We want to learn to fly." ~ #MelodyBeattie/ Finding Your Way Home #YESquote #souljourney #recovery #innerpeace linkly.link/2EYrE

"We want to *go*home*...to find our purpose, our right place, the right people to live & work w/, the right work to do....We want to come into alignment w/ our highest good & destiny. We want to discover & live our soul's purpose." #MelodyBeattie/ Finding Our Way Home

Learn to recognize the differences between PTSD and complex PTSD: the source of wound, emotional echo, self-image, relationship impact, coping mechanisms, and guiding beliefs. youtu.be/f7cF8yU2LjM?...

“The world is increasingly designed to #depress us. #Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy w/ what we had, why would we need more?...To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business.” ― Matt Haig, Reasons to #StayAlive #UREnough linkly.link/2EWru

During morning centering, a thought came: #Depression is like #entropy —thoughts muddled, #purpose dissolving, #energy draining away. Turns out #brainentropy is real, and the #thermodynamic metaphor offers tools to cope. linkly.link/2ERF9 tinyurl.com/4ts3u6nf

Ecotherapy...💛

Seeking stories of #everydayheroism and #innerwork in healing from #abuse, #trauma, #addiction, & the #terror of our times. If you’ve chosen to carry on despite all odds—thanks to #courage, 🧡, or sheer #stubbornness —your story can inspire others. Hesitant? Editing/coaching available. DM me!

🍐 A German grandmother creates a healing/social service community for Kathmandu's poorest. Over 20+ yrs they survive attacks, earthquakes, pandemic & US food aid cuts—yet keep planting fruit trees to give malnourished children fresh vitamins & fight climate change. Can you help? #Nepal #Resilience

I'm honored to share the newest post on LIVEdammit - the inspiring story of Marianne Grosspietsch & the Shanti Leprahilfe community she founded to care for the "untouchable" poor in Kathmandu, Nepal. Enjoy...if you can, please consider contributing to Shanti's fundraising effort! linkly.link/2EEIF

September is #NationalSuicidePreventionMonth. Join with survivors, friends and families in an #OutoftheDarkness march near you! "Connection...to family & community support is one of the most important factors in reducing the likelihood of suicide." Learn more & sign up - linkly.link/2EBZB

"If you struggle to make #goodhabits stick, to find consistency, & to actually #feelgood in the process, you're not alone...I was you. But here's what I want you to know. You are not failing. You are not a #failure." ~The Feel Good Effect/Robyn Conley Downs #selfcompassion #YESquotes bit.ly/4mWwSYr

"Your reactions to events & situations aren't random; they're controlled by your #emotionalintelligence ...Think of your #EI as a compass guiding you thru your day. Like a captain sailing a boat, you are the leader of your life. ~Abby Swift/A Tween Girl's Guide to Feelings & Emotions bit.ly/41kgwAy

With local public media stations on the brink of collapse followingTrump’s successful push to strip federal funding, the Public Media Bridge Fund hopes to raise $100 million over the next two years to keep local newsrooms alive.