2/ and insightful writer / speaker—new!
This is a non-exhaustive list. What is helpful for you? What brings your system back to baseline and your gaze back into focus?
Samara Cole Doyon
@samara-cole-doyon.bsky.social
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Author of Magnificent Homespun Brown, Magic Like That, Next Level. International Literacy Award Winner. Lupin Award Winner. Poet. Mom. She / her / hers
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Things that make me feel grounded or regulated again after a big upset:
- Non-judgmental, affirming listening. 2) Journaling (listening to and affirming myself). 3) Being outside & in a safe, familiar place when the air is dry / cool. 4) Snuggles. 5) Music, audiobooks, a podcast by an educated
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Hi. American slavery was an absolute abomination, and the global descendants of enslaved people absolutely deserve reparations. Have whatever kind of day you need to have 🥰
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Reminder: A lot of what people think they know about you is projection. To “understand” or interpret you, to “see” you at all, to make space for you in their world, others wash you in shades of their own limited palette. You exceed their capacity to understand.
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Is it normal to find yourself shaking and sobbing until your eyes are swollen half-shut because of a beautifully written passage about love, loss, and grief in a book? Or am I actually insane? Thanks in advance for your insight 💃🏾
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Honestly, even if you merely like (or generously tolerate!) an author, this is a lovely thing to do for books and bookstores and bookfriends and bookculture. ♥️ Requesting that your local library order it goes a long way too (especially with lesser-known authors most library don't have on auto-buy).
If you love an author, preorder their next book as soon as you hear about it. They’ll love you forever, and when you get your copy the very day of publication, you’ll forget you ever paid for it and it’ll feel like you got it free.
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3/ provide 24/7 support, because said loved ones need to work to make a living, and if we are already rolling back barriers to the institutional hellscape so many have fought so hard to abolish, we already know what comes next. Because we have seen it.
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2/ other community-based programs. If funding for theses programs are cut and disabled folks (like my son) do not have the resources which allow them access to community, programs like special education, housing accommodations, support personnel, and if their loved ones cannot remain with them to
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Discovered fasciation just last year myself 😃 So cool!
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Getting some work done via phone because my laptop is busted, organizing all my to-do lists (home management / family / personal, professional writing, my actual paying job, etc) when I reach into the wad of curls gathered on top of my head and find a pen. Slept on it all night. Classic 🫠
