I woke up feeling dread. My heart breaks for everyone that feels unsafe. I am a therapist and I work with many LGBTQ people. I’m wondering if I’m even safe. The façade has fallen and I only pray we can take it back and rebuild within integrity. In the meantime, I will love.

I choose love, courage in the face of power, justice, and intention to grow, not because a religious dogma tells me to, but because it is my core nature. It is our core nature.

More and more people are joining blue sky. For me, it’s an interesting format, in that I’m following a lot of people that I don’t know, but people that I do know are also joining. I’d like to start posting more here, but not sure exactly how to approach that. Either way, glad to be here :-)

Hey there :)

To my non-binary, trans, gender queer, and gender non-conforming friends and family. I love you, I see you, I validate you, I celebrate you.

If you are in Chicago, and are not white presenting, please have copies of your documents on you starting tomorrow. Put copies of your children’s birth certificates, passports, immigration paperwork on them at school.

ACLU Chgo phone number is 312-201-9740. Memorize or write on your body.

Trying to wrap my head around how I could leave Meta platforms……. Maybe I’ll start with scaling down and using Bsky more.

Graduating my therapy clients is so bittersweet to my heart. 💔❤️‍🩹

1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years

But we've identified 10 promise keepers:

Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
General Mills
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft

Be good to yourselves peeps.

I love that when I first joined BlueSky, I stated that I like animals, so all of my amazing liberal content is punctuated by pictures of cats.

I’m ok, but I’m not ok, you know? I’m feeling hurt, confused, bitter, lonely, overwhelmed, disheartened, shocked, and …. Resigned? I hate that. Is this who we really are?
I am angry at religion, hyper-patriotism, patriarchy, and pretty much everyone and everything.

Everyone is angry.

Anger is an emotion, and…. It often covers the true feeling. Anger feels safer. Judgment and isolation, shutting down, lashing out and hurting feels empowering. But is it?

Is anyone making “cabinet members getting fired”bingo cards?

For the next 2 yrs (minimally), it will be up to the few remaining GOP house and senate members with any remaining shred of integrity to keep the US from careening off the cliff.

We are all swimming in the mucky soup of grief, helplessness, fear, sorrow, and the distant call of hope.

Starting here. Looking for like minded, fact based, spiritual, artsy, growth-oriented people to follow. I’m a therapist, progressive, learning, failing, getting up again.