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Family Scripts, Faith Shame, and the Cost of Courage

When Liberation Makes You the Villain: Scripts of Shame and Silence

The Cost of Telling the Truth in Whitewashed Spaces

Truth-telling in spaces that can’t hold you

To My Estranged Husband — and Every Man Still Trying to Be Worthy

Embodied Consent: From Control to Co-Creation

The Sacred Yes And The Revolutionary No

Permission to Rage, Permission to Rest

No is a Complete Sentence

Sacred Refusal: A Practice of Saying No Without Explaining

This Isn’t About Immigration, It’s About Occupation

Rest as Rebellion: Permission to Pause

Giving Yourself Permission to Be More Than What Survives

Reclaiming Expansive Speech: A Practice Guide

God Doesn’t Give You More Than You Can Handle” — Or Does He?

Language as a Tool of Obedience: From Home to Hustle Culture

Language as a Mirror

How Thought-Terminating Clichés Serve Empire, Not Healing

Why “it is what it is” isn’t Liberation

“It Is What It Is”… And Other Phrases That Police the Spirit

Welcome to June: A Season of Expansion

What Legacy Am I Planting?

The Legacy of our Blossoming

The Legacy of Our Blossoming

Joy as Somatic Medicine

Neuroaffirming Home: Designed to Meet the Needs of Everyone

Joy as Rebellion: Cultivating Radical Celebration

Joy as Rebellion

Blooming is a Form of Resistance

What Am I Being Asked to Release?

What we must release and let die

Grieving What Won’t Grow

The Lie of Urgency: It’s Not Too Late, It’s Too Rushed

The Bloom is Slow: Honoring Divine Timing in Liberation

Grieving in Bloom Season

Not Every Storm Means You’re Failing

Where Am I Overextending?

Nourishment Over Sacrifice

Resisting Extraction: How to Protect Your Energy in Activism

Blooming Requires Boundaries

What Am I Rooting Myself Into?

The Myth of Self-Made Liberation: Dismantling individualism in our bloom stories

Root Systems: How Resistance Grows in Community

“I Don’t Trust White People”:

Every Bloom Begins Underground

What Does It Mean to Bloom in Resistance?

Day 100 of 100 days of Community

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We’re Not Done. We’re Just Getting Free

Day 97 of 100 days of community

Welcome to May: Season of Blooming — Rooted in Resistance

Day 96 of 100 days of community

Becoming the Soil: Integration, Surrender, and Sustained Expansion

Day 95 of 100 days of community

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The Season of Becoming

Day 93 of 100 days of community

How Can I Invite Others Into My Liberation Journey?

Building a Life Rooted in Purpose and Possibility

Day 92 of 100 days of community

Day 91 of 100 days of community

Day 90 of 100 days of community

Collective Visioning for Systemic Change

Day 89 of 100 days of community

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Nature as Teacher: Living in Harmony with Cycles

Day 87 of 100 days of community

How Do I Know When I’m Growing in the Right Direction?

Day 86 of 100 days of community

Self-Trust as a Liberatory Practice

He Used His Mama’s Gun: A Note on Power, Whiteness, and the Real Threat

Day 85 of 100 days of community

🩷 The Patriarchy in Pink: White Women, You Are Your Men

Day 84 of 100 days of community

Becoming the Future You’ve Imagined

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The Threshold of Becoming

Day 81 of 100 days of community

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What Does My Ideal Life Look Like Beyond Oppression?

Day 79 of 100 days of community

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Day 77 of 100 days of community

Self-Worth and the Right to Want More

Fear as a Portal to Liberation

Growing Through Resistance

Day 76 of 100 days of community

Day 75 of 100 days of community

How Can I Expand Without Abandoning Myself?

Day 74 of 100 days of community

Day 73 of 100 days of community

The Anatomy of a Liberated Dream

Day 72 of 100 days of community

Expanding Beyond Survival Thinking

Day 71 of 100 days of community

Reclaiming the Power to Dream

Welcome to April: The Season of Emergence

Day 70 of 100 days of community

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Reimagining Possibilities: Where Do We Go from Here?

Day 68 of 100 days of community

Spring Forward Without Burning Out: How Do I Align My Energy With Natural Cycles?

Day 67 of 100 days of community

Becoming Someone New: Identity, Evolution, & Self-Trust

Day 66 of 100 days of community

Liberated Visioning: How to Dream Beyond Survival

Day 65 of 100 days of community

Day 64 of 100 days of community

The Irish Brigade & the Civil War: Fighting on Both Sides of Freedom

Bacon’s Rebellion & The Invention of Whiteness

Day 63 of 100 days of community

Reclaiming Joy as a Form of Rest

Day 62 of 100 days of community

Day 61 of 100 days of community

Boundaries as Liberation: How Do I Hold Space for Others Without Absorbing Their Burdens?

Dismantling the Shame of Starting Over

Day 60 of 100 days of community

Day 59 of 100 days of community

The Irish in America—From Oppressed Immigrants to Political Power

Day 58 of 100 days of Community

Unlearning Hyper-Independence: The Courage to Receive Support

Day 57 of 100 days of community

The Irish & The Caribbean—From Indentured Servitude to Revolution

St. Patrick’s Day: A Decolonized History of Ireland’s Patron Saint & the Erasure of Indigenous Irish Traditions

Rituals of Return: Finding Your Way Back to Yourself

Day 56 of 100 days of community

Day 55 of 100 days of Community

The Irish in Exile—How the Wild Geese Kept the Fight Alive

Day 54 of 100 days of community

The Flight of the Earls & The Loss of Gaelic Ireland

How Do I Shed the Stories That No Longer Serve Me?

Day 53 of 100 days of community

The Irish Land Wars & The Fight Against British Landlords

The Softness of Strength: Embracing Rest as Resistance

Cromwell’s Conquest & The Massacre of Drogheda: How Brutality Shaped Ireland’s Centuries-Long Resistance

Day 52 of 100 days of Community

Day 51 of 100 days of community

Grief in Growth: Letting Go of What No Longer Serves You

Why Do We Wear Green? A Wee Bit of Historical Resistance

Day 50 of 100 days of community

The Outlawing of Irish Culture—How Music, Dance, and Storytelling Became Acts of Rebellion

Day 49 of 100 days of community

Day 48 or 100 days of Community

Releasing Resistance: How to Trust the Timing of Your Own Becoming

The Statutes of Kilkenny: The Blueprint for Segregation and Cultural Erasure

Day 47 of 100 days of community

Hedge Schools: The Outlawing of Irish Culture & The Fight to Preserve Knowledge

How Do I Embrace Renewal Without Rushing My Growth?

Day 46 of 100 days of Community

The Shadow of Perfectionism: Why Growth Feels So Hard

The Magdalene Laundry Houses: Ireland’s Stolen Daughters

Day 45 of 100 days of community

The Penal Laws: How Britain Controlled Ireland Through Oppression, Division, and Fear

Day 44 of 100 days of community

The Soweto Uprising (1976) – When Children Defied an Empire

The Black Liberation Army (1970–1981) – The War Against State Violence

The Irish Rebellion of 1798: When Ireland United Against Empire

Breaking Up with Urgency: How to Cultivate Intentional Growth

Day 43 of 100 days of Community

Sinn Féin – Resistance, Revolution, and the Fight for Self-Determination

Day 42 of 100 days of community

Preparing for Renewal: Setting Intentions with Clarity

Welcome to March: The Season of Renewal

Day 41 of 100 days of community

Day 40 of 100 days of community

How Do I Address Invisible Emotional Labor at Work to Protect My Well-Being?

Day 39 of 100 days of community

Season of Self: The Power of Softness

Day 38 of 100 days of community

The Negro Fort (1816) – A Bastion of Black Resistance

Season of Self—The Power of Radical Acceptance

The Harlem Renaissance (1920s) – A Love Letter to Black Art, Expression, and Freedom

Day 37 of 100 days of community

The Attica Prison Uprising (1971) – The Revolt That Exposed the Carceral State

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The Zanj Rebellion (869–883) – The Forgotten African Revolt That Shook an Empire

Season of Self: The Sweetness of Doing Nothing

Day 34 of 100 days of community

The Stono Rebellion (1739) – The First Major Slave Revolt in the American Colonies

The Amistad Rebellion (1839) – A Fight for Freedom on the High Seas

Day 33 of 100 days of Community

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The Port Royal Experiment (1862–1865) and Sherman’s Field Order 15

Day 31 of 100 days of community

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The League of Revolutionary Black Workers (1969): Labor, Liberation, and the Power of Collective Action

The Ossian Sweet Incident: A Fight for Home and Dignity (1925)

Day 30 of 100 days of community

Season of Self: Preparing for Renewal

Day 29 of 100 days of community

The Silent Parade (1917) – A March for Justice That Echoes Today

Day 28 of 100 days of community

The Negro Motorist Green Book (1936–1966) – A Guide to Survival and Joy on the Road

Season of Self: Preparing for Renewal

Day 27 of 100 days of community

The Free African Society (1787) – The Foundation of Black Mutual Aid and Community Self-Determination

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (1925) – The First Black-Led Union That Changed America

Day 26 of 100 days of community

How Do I Decolonize Love and Redefine It as a Liberatory Act?

Day 25 of 100 days of community

The Wilmington Insurrection of 1898: The Coup That Changed American Democracy

Season of Self: Reclaiming Power, The Shadow as a Source of Strength

Day 24 of 100 days of community

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Angelo Herndon’s Labor Organizing (1932)"You Cannot Kill the Working Class"

Season of Self: Shedding What No Longer Serves

Day22 of 100 days of community

The Combahee River Collective (1974–1980): The Birth of Intersectional Feminism and Collective Liberation

Fannie Lou Hamer and the Freedom Farms Cooperative (1967)

Day 21 of 100 days of community

Season of Self: The Shadow Knows — Embracing What We’ve Suppressed

Black History Through the Lens of Liberation, a Series

Day 20 of 100 days of community

The MOVE Organization (1972–1985)

The Deacons for Defense and Justice (1964): Protecting Black Communities from State and White Supremacist Violence

Day 19 of 100 days of community

How Do I Reclaim Liberation by Honoring the Legacy of Black Resistance? (Even when I am not Black)

The Red Summer (1919): When Black Resilience Faced White Rage

Day 18 of 100 days of community

Season of Self: Shadow Work and the Path to Renewal

Day 17 of 100 days of community

The Exodusters Movement (1879): Building Freedom on New Soil

Day 16 of 100 days of community

Season of Self: Trusting the Process

The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804): The Only Successful Slave Rebellion in History

Day 15 of 100 days of community

Robert Smalls’ Escape (1862): The Journey from Enslaved Pilot to Congressman

Day 14 of 100 days of Community

Igbo Landing (1803): Ancestral Defiance, Water Legends, and the Power of Cultural Legacy

Join me on Notes

Season of Self: The Quiet Power of Reflection

Zumbi dos Palmares and the Quilombo of Palmares:

Day 13 of 100 days of community

Blueprints for Liberation: What Maroon Communities Teach Us About Building a New Future

Day 12 of 100 days of Community

What Stories Are Keeping Me Stuck?

Day 11 of 100 days of community

Season of Self: Reclaiming Joy

Day 10 of 100 days of community

The Federal Funding Freeze and Rescission:

Day 9 of 100 days of community

Season of Self: The Power of Boundaries as Liberation

The Federal Funding Freeze is a Wake-Up Call: The Working Class—Trump Voters Included—Are Under Attack

Day 8 of the 100 days of Community

Day 7 of 100 days of community

Season of Self: Slowing Down as an Act of Liberation

Day 6 of 100 Days of Community

Day 5 of 100 days of community

How Do We Build Collective Liberation Through Shadow Work?

Day 4 of 100 days of community

The Radical Act of Rest

Day 3 of 100 Days of Community

Day 2 of 100 Days of Community Unpacking Individualism—Why We Need Each Other

Season of Self: Embodying Alignment

Jus Soli: The Roots of Birthright Citizenship and the Hypocrisy of White Supremacy

Day 1 of 100 Days of Community

🌟 100 Days of Community Starts Tomorrow! 🌟

In Lieu of Current Events: Revisiting the Legacy and Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Second Coming: What Trump’s Executive Orders Mean for the Future of America

Snapping Into Isolation: How We Lost Community at the Tipping Point of Change

The TikTok Ban: A Lesson in Presidential Tandem, Political Optics, and the Illusion of Division

What Are We Marching For?

Season of Self: Returning to Alignment

Unwritten Chapters After Letting Go

Releasing What No Longer Serves: A Season of Letting Go

How Do I Reclaim My Narrative in the Midst of Oppression and Expectation?

Scarcity as a System: How Supremacy Culture Perpetuates Panic and Hoarding

Embracing What We Have

From Love, Not For Love: A Winter Journey of Reflection and Liberation

The Season of Self: Reconnecting, Reclaiming, and Restoring

Welcome to the Season of Self

How Do I Embrace the Parts of Myself I've Been Taught to Hide?

What Stories Do Our Shadows Tell, and How does Supremacy Culture Impact That?

Honoring Winter: A Season for Rest and Reflection

Welcome to 2025!

Decolonizing Christmas: Reclaiming Community and Liberation