Click on the image to be taken to the full Instagram post. I’ve been away for a couple of weeks, and though I’m sure that I felt my absence more than anyone else, my guilt is giving rise to a little writer’s block as I sit down to compose this week’s post. My inner perfectionist, …
Therapy for white supremacy culture: sense of urgency
Click on the image to be taken to the full Instagram post. In recent months, I have been writing about various characteristics of white supremacy culture in order to help white folks understand what white supremacy culture is and how we are harmed by it. My hope in writing these posts is to motivate white …
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Therapy for white supremacy culture: Defensiveness and Denial
Click on the image to be taken to the full Instagram post. In recent weeks, I have been writing about various characteristics of white supremacy culture in order to help white folks understand what white supremacy culture is and how we are harmed by it. My hope in writing these posts is to motivate white …
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Mindfulness and talking about white supremacy
Click on the image to be taken to the full Instagram post In this post, I share my thoughts on how mindfulness can help us have more productive and connecting conversations about white supremacy. So, it finally happened. Two personal friends in the last month have indicated that they think I’ve been writing an awful …
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The spiritual lessons of COVID
Click on the image to be taken to the full Instagram post I've been wondering about the true spiritual lessons we are meant to learn from the present sociopolitical context we're living in regarding COVID and vaccines. Here are a few thoughts. Two major concepts from spirituality that carry a lot of meaning for me …
Therapy for white supremacy culture: Quantity over quality
Click on the image to be taken to the full Instagram post. For the past few weeks, I’ve been writing about the characteristics of white supremacy culture, as described by Tema Okun, and I have been focusing on how these characteristics cause us harm by distancing us from our values. This week, I will continue …
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Therapy for white supremacy culture: Either/or thinking
Click on the image to be taken to the full Instagram post. For the past few weeks, I’ve been writing about the characteristics of white supremacy culture, as presented by Tema Okun, and I’ve taken a closer look at fear and perfectionism specifically. Today I’ll continue that examination with a third major characteristic of white …
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Therapy for white supremacy culture: Perfectionism
Click the image to be taken to the full Instagram post Last week I wrote about fear, the foundational characteristic of white supremacy culture, and how Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) can help us overcome the ways that fear prevents us from acting on our values and living a meaningful life. This week I will …
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White supremacy & cultural therapy: change starts with you
Click the image to be taken to the full Instagram post. Last week, I wrote about four characteristics of white supremacy culture—fear, perfectionism, either/or thinking, and quantity over quality—and the need for cultural therapy. I believe it’s important to highlight (especially for white-identified people, or people who are skeptical about the relevance of white supremacy …
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Surface generalizations: A grammar antifa warning
Click the image to be taken to the full Instagram post. Every once in a while, I can’t help but nerd out about linguistics and its relevance to everything. In this article, I will share two distinctions from theoretical linguistics that can help us avoid the trap of relying on surface generalizations in our thinking …
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