grinnellgrad.bsky.social
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Hope you feel better soon!
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I am so excited!!
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I keep several random reminders like this that make me chuckle. Bring an onion. Wear pants. Take naps.
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Or showing you photos of a pet that recently passed.
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Indiana director for Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates: “Indiana… continues to have one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country.”
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Today I answered a call from a white woman coworker ‘hello fellow DEI hire!’
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📌
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This was my question! That seems like a deadly process? Unless you are hooked up to like an ECMO machine?!
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Thank you for this prompt. I called my senator.
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Several times a day, I notice the choice. Several times a day, I put down the rocks.
The anger will still be there if I need it. But chances are, I won't.
This isn't bullshit positive thinking or spiritual bypassing or pretending everything is fine.
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The trick isn't processing the anger or justifying it or reframing it.
The trick is noticing I'm choosing it.
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It's simply asking: "Is this anger serving me? Is it serving anyone?"
For me, usually, it isn't.
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The alternative to anger isn't passivity. It's not surrendering to injustice or accepting the unacceptable.
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I choose anger because it feels righteous. Because it energizes. Because it lets me point fingers, dunk and scream. I choose it far more often than I'd like. And every time I choose it, I spiral.
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But here's the thing: while the initial spark might be automatic, the bonfire is optional.
The market manipulation makes me angry. The political corruption makes me angry. The trolls make me angry. The hate makes me angry. The transphobia makes me angry...
Except it doesn't.
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We've been sold a story about anger. That it's inevitable, justified, necessary. That it's something that happens TO us rather than something we choose.
The amygdala fires. The blood pressure rises. The fists clench.
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Definite book possibilities! Horror, romance, DIY!