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Aug
25
What Does Intentional, Human Centered Disaster Response Look Like?

What Does Intentional, Human Centered Disaster Response Look Like?

Nothing much can get done unless and until people feel safe, seen and heard before they can act effectively.
5 min read
Aug
19
The Importance of Human Response to Systemic Failure

The Importance of Human Response to Systemic Failure

Trauma is arguably a part of life, but also arguably, hardship can be prevented from ever becoming trauma by loving care and compassion
5 min read
Aug
12
A reintroduction

A reintroduction

We don't talk about what happens or how to manage when the losses keep piling on
3 min read
Apr
11
A black and white image of a semi truck traveling along a highway under overcast skies alongside a mountain range. Sunlight breaks through the clouds at intervals.

Five Years After My Dystopian Fiction Was Published, I’m Afraid It Might Actually Be Coming True

What I never expected in writing to process my layoffs as well as my privilege
7 min read
Mar
11
A young white woman with dark hair lies face down on grass, her arms folded over her head.

Finding Community and Building Solidarity for Socially Exhausted Introverts*

If you're paying attention, you find the keys to all your future interactions
3 min read
Mar
04
An assembly line of gardeners work together to plant pink and yellow flowers in a long brick planter

How to Heal When Life Feels Like the Environment That Harmed You

Regaining our sense of agency is another way of saying regaining the sense of power we lost in the environment(s) that harmed us
5 min read
Feb
05
A stalk of purple flowers grows tall through rows of yellow flowers, standing out

Asking for Help When You Don’t Conform to Social Expectations

Here’s what “trans rights are human rights” really means -- for everyone
5 min read
Jan
31
A woman's hand holds a pen over paper on a wooden desk beside a notebook and a mug.

To Protect Our Children, We First Need to Heal Ourselves

The predatory men I engaged with recognized I was starved for connection. Our support structures need to realize this, too.
13 min read
Jan
31
A man dressed as Spiderman and wearing a yellow jacket shows card tricks to a group of childr

How American Hero Narratives Keep Us From Solving Social Crises — or Healing

We insist on “rescuer” narratives at the expense of developing agency for our children and ourselves
10 min read
Jan
31
A Latin child with dark hair and a red shirt gazes at the camera with suspicion.

5 Things “Stranger Danger” Education Got Wrong, and 1 It Gets Right

How emphasizing “stranger danger” hamstrung a generation’s understanding of threats to child safety
9 min read