The Joyful Empath

Welcome to Art Making for the Revolution. This week I offer a poem I wrote on the prompt of hope, and an invitation to respond. We must find our own hope to center in and guide us through our actions for collective liberation. What is your breath of hope?

Free Palestine. Free Sudan. Free Congo. Land Back. Until we all are free.

Breath of Hope: Art Making for the Revolution Photo by Marieth Díaz on Pexels.com What is hope in these violent times? This is the prompt I explored with a kindred friend early on in October. When I

Welcome to March week 2: Art Making for the Revolution. This week we explore the messaging we inherited about grief. As well as rituals and pathways to move with grief.

Free Palestine. Free Sudan. Free Congo. Land Back. Until we all are free.

Honoring Grief: Art Making for the Revolution So many of us do not have support to relate to grief. it can feel unbearable. What can a healing, supported pathway of grieving look like?

Welcome to March week 1, Art Making for the Revolution. This week we explore the deeply important topic of divesting from communities complicit to genocide, unlearning individualism, and exploring what blocks us from liberatory community.

Free Palestine. Free Sudan. Free Congo. Land Back. Until we all are free.

Be in Community: Weekly Art Making for the Revolution As we witness the ongoing genocides, many are feeling isolated, defeated, and alone. Colonization and white supremacy thrive on our isolation. How can we find and engage with liberatory, mutually reciprocal community - and what messaging blocks us from doing so?

Welcome to February! This week in Art Making for the Revolution we begin to explore the practice of liberatory anger as a path to healing, instead of the ways it so often gets silenced and pathologized.

Liberatory Anger: Weekly Art Making for the Revolution Throughout the last few months I have witnessed escalated policing of the expression of liberatory anger within multiple communities. There has been tone

This week’s Art Making for the Revolution post is canceled in honor of the strike. Instead, here is an action you can take today. Please donate, share, and boost widely.

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My friends family has escaped death countless times in the past months. He is seeking to evacuate them from Rafah border, prioritizing children first. Please support this fundraiser and share with everyone you know - it means life or death.

This is his desperate call for support:

“Dear everyone who cares about humanity,

I am writing this to you in a time of urgent and necessary need. My family of fourteen is currently in Gaza, facing unimaginable circumstances. My family and I are desperately seeking your support to help them evacuate to safety.

Currently living far from my family, I find myself thousands of miles away, feeling helpless as my family endures the hardships of the ongoing crisis in Gaza. The situation has become increasingly bad, and I fear for their safety daily. Since October 7th, my family has been evacuated inside Gaza countless times, back and forth, witnessed death countless times, and yet miraculously made it through. For the past 32 hours, my family has been trapped in Khan Yunis. They miraculously managed to escape to Rafah, leaving everything behind, saving only their lives. Some of my cousins were taken hostage, others were executed, and my cousins are still trapped in shelter centers and cannot move due to the siege. I am in dire need of evacuating those who escaped from them, and they are now in the streets of Rafah, without a tent or a safe place to stay, and every second they are in... Gazans are seconds close to death.”

Please read the go fund me link for a complete description and transparency of the breakdown of these funds.

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Welcome to week 3: art making for the revolution! This week we are exploring spirituality and what an engaged, just, and liberation focused spiritual practice can look like.

May these prompts guide you on your path to liberation. May all oppressed peoples everywhere be free.

Free Palestine. Free Sudan. Free Congo. Until we all are free.

Engaged Spirituality: Weekly Art Making for the Revolution Welcome to week 3! This week we are exploring your relationship to spirituality, and what an engaged, liberation focused spiritual practice can look like.

Welcome to week two: Art Making for the Revolution! This week I invite you to explore your relationship to working with your ancestors, known or unknown. It’s important for us to find the strength, wisdom, and connection of those who have come before to hold us on our paths. Especially now.

Ancestors: Weekly Art Making for the Revolution Growing up I heard very little about my ancestors. We are white, and my family taught me that we are Irish, French Canadien, and Blackfeet. We had a

As this year closes, we are living through profound violence and suffering in this world. Many of us feel heart-broken, afraid, and helpless witnessing the multiple genocides around the world. Additionally, the devastation of colonization, imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, and the resulting climate change, is affecting everyone. This new year has an opportunity to bring great change - internally and externally....

New Year, New Practice: Weekly HSP Healing Arts Prompt As this year closes, we are living through profound violence and suffering in this world. Many of us feel heart-broken, afraid, and helpless witnessing

We will not be silent.

Indebted to the incredible wisdom, spirit, labor, and power of all those who created this statement. To the spirits of all those who came before, who created the paths that this statement could be made. And to the community of supporters of which I am proud to be part of, who showed that we are so far from alone here.

We will not be complicit to gen*cide.

As healers, we can never stop fighting for liberation and justice. Just as there can be no peace without justice, there can be no true healing without the path of liberation.

It is our job not to uphold the abusive systems of power around us. But to disrupt them.

Sign. Share. Make your voices heard. We can make change, together.

May you Free. May you Free. May you Free. May you Be. Home. 🗝️🍉

Shut it Down Friday vibes.

May we root in the collective. May our spirits and healed ancestors guide us. May we turn ever towards freedom, liberation, accountability, healing, and justice. May we hear the calls of this time and find our path. May we always remember - none of us are free, until all of us are free.

May these guided questions help reflect on the ways we have given up our discernment and accountability in exchange for promises of “safety” and “comfort”, and the impact of that on us all. May we always remember that none of us are free, until all of us are free.

Part 2- May these words support you with aligned and supported healing-in-action.

None of us are free, until all of us are free.

Part 1- May these words support you with aligned and resourced healing-in-action.

None of us are free, until all of us are free.

I will always support and uplift freedom and life.
I mourn for the murder and genocide of an entire Palestinian people, culture, land, life.
I mourn for the murders and intergenerational trauma of Jewish people.
I bear witness to this time.

As someone who is highly sensitive and/or an empath, you are empathic, intuitive, creative, and highly attuned to others. However, these natural gifts mean that you may also be a people pleaser! People pleasing is a pattern of feelings, communication, and behavior that caters towards appeasing another person. This pattern shows up across many relationships....

Are you a People Pleaser? Relationships for HSP and Empaths Empaths, HSP, and People Pleasing in Relationships Dear all, As someone who is highly sensitive and/or an empath, you are empathic, intuitive, creative,

LGBTQ empaths and highly sensitive people are at greater risk for experiencing hypervigilance. Learn to differentiate between high sensitivity and hypervigilance, and why they both need support.

LGBTQ Empaths: High Sensitivity and Hypervigilance Q***r, Trans, and Sacred - QT Magic Series Dear all, Q***r is Sacred. Trans is Sacred. We are Sacred. Make this your heart affirmation. Historically,

Setting boundaries can feel scary, overwhelming, and hard - especially if you are highly sensitive or intuitive! If you'd like some tangible ideas to get started, this blog post is for you.

5 Ways to Set a Boundary: for Empaths & HSP Setting boundaries can feel scary, overwhelming, and hard - especially if you are highly sensitive or intuitive! If you'd like some tangible ideas to get started, this blog post is for you.

If you're feeling ungrounded, disconnected, or emotionally overwhelmed, read on. Learn what grounding is and how to ground in 3 easy steps. I hope this blog supports you on your journey.

How to Ground as an Empath: 3 Easy Steps

https://joyfulempath.com/2021/09/13/how-to-ground-as-an-empath-3-easy-steps/

How to Ground as an Empath: 3 Easy Steps As an empath, or someone who tends to pick up on and absorb the energies and emotions of others, it can be challenging to know how to ground. You feel

Are you an empath or highly sensitive person feeling overwhelmed and lost during these times? This post is for you.

7 Ways to Get Centered for Empaths and HSP

https://joyfulempath.com/2021/08/30/7-ways-to-get-centered-for-empaths-and-hsp/

7 Ways to Get Centered for Empaths and HSP Dear all, In these turbulent and uncertain times, it is very easy to lose track of your relationship with you. When everything feels chaotic and

Are you an empath, highly sensitive person, or intuitive who has trouble setting boundaries? This post is for you.

How to Set Boundaries: Self-Love for Empaths & HSP

https://joyfulempath.com/2021/08/23/empath-highly-sensitive-person-set-boundaries/

How to Set Boundaries: Self-Love for Empaths & HSP - The Joyful Empath Learning how to set boundaries as an empath, intuitive, and highly sensitive person can be challenging! Here's what you need to know.

Dear all, it has been a time. If you are feeling grief and sadness over all you have lived through the past year and a half, please know that you are not alone. This blog post is especially for you. Grief: Making Space for Feeling

https://joyfulempath.com/2021/08/16/grief-making-space-for-feeling/

Grief: Making Space for Feeling - The Joyful Empath Grief is a challenging & necessary feeling. It is important to find sacred & connected ways to grieve, especially in times like these.

dear empaths, healers, sensitives, and heart-holders,

who is in your care circle?

a care circle is made up of the people, places, and other beings who nourish you on any level. care circles also include creative expressions, physical practices, spiritual practices, and any activity that feeds, inspires, and replenishes you.

care circles are the sacred circle of land in which you tend and grow your life.

often times it can feel like life is living you, rather than the other way around. it is in these moments where you can benefit the most from connecting to your care circle. just taking a moment to invite yourself to feel into what you need can interrupt the cycle of anxiety, pressure, and stress. no need for an answer right away. just be with yourself and allow the answer to bloom.

what makes up your care circle? how can you help yourself re-connect with your circle, especially when things are hard?

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dear heart-holders, healers, sensitives, and empaths,

who do you allow to see you- truly?

as someone who is drawn to bringing healing to others, you have the gifts and ability to see deeply. to witness what’s beneath the surface for other people. to stay with the depths and the messiness of being human. to know them beyond what others may have capacity for.

yet- who sees you in return?

it can be easy to forget about your need to be known, witnessed, and seen. to be valued and treasured in your own depths and mess. in fact, it can often feel safer! as a deeply sensitive and intuitive person, you may long for the gift of being known at the same time as fear it. it is all to easy to hide behind the gift of seeing others, and let your own self hide in plain sight.

the path of healing includes learning to discern safer and gradual ways to allow yourself to open up in turn. there are others in this world who want to see you fully. and you deserve the richness of your own gift, returned.

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dear heart-holders, healers, sensitives, and empaths,

nourish your own self first. the calling to offer healing to others can be overwhelming. there is so much pain and suffering in the world. it can take everything you have to give, and more, before you even realize.

it doesn’t have to be that way.

you deserve the tremendous benefit of your own gifts FIRST. turn that big beautiful heart back towards you. ask yourself- what will re-awaken your sense of joy, of hope? what will remind you of the incredible beauty and love in this world? what can you do to feel healed, replenished, and re-aligned with your own core self?

please do not think that just because you can feel the suffering around you, that you have to heal it. you are so much more than this calling. and you cannot choose to give from an empty well.

nourish. yourself. first.

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Happy Intersectional Pride!! Scroll through the images for what that means. Sending magic, joy, deep restoration, and true belonging from my q***r, non-binary, genderfluid sacred being, to yours! 🌈🌈🌈