by Kate | Sep 20, 2023 | Advocacy, Chronic healing
I was 10 years old when I began my life as an activist. In my small Wisconsin hometown, a group of us kids painted oil drums bright co echo turn off the kitchen lors. Helpful adults arranged for them to be scattered around downtown so that people could use them as...
by Kate | Sep 13, 2023 | Advocacy, Chronic healing
What if we saw privilege as an invitation to make the world a better place? When Chef Asma Khan was a young girl growing up in India, her father took her to the ruins of the ancestral palace. From there, they could see the remains of the surrounding slums. “It was an...
by Kate | Sep 6, 2023 | Advocacy
This month, I am working with the kind promise “I will advocate courageously.” I was raised to believe in advocacy. If you saw an unjust system, you joined with others to work to make things right. For example, when I was a kid, I was not allowed to eat grapes. My...
by Kate | Sep 21, 2022 | Advocacy
When you witness someone being put down or hassled right there in front you, what can you do? Authors of the new book I’ve Got Your Back offered this advice in a recent interview. Harassment is any behavior, verbal or non-verbal, that is unwanted, unwelcome, and...
by Kate | Sep 15, 2022 | Advocacy
Often, this blog and I are focused on cultivating mental attitudes that help us live with more self-compassion. Some might call it navel gazing. The kind promise “I will advocate courageously” reminds us to lift our eyes, look around, and help someone else. There is a...
by Kate | Sep 6, 2022 | Advocacy
This month, I am considering the kind promise “I will advocate courageously.” This promise is an invitation to lift my gaze from my own situation, look at the needs of the world around me, and pitch in to help where I can. I listened this week to a talk from my...
