05/11/2026
A Note for Those Whose Rage has Triggered a Fight, Flight or Freeze Response
Your nervous system will thank you for reading this reminder.
If we’re calling this era the “Age of Disclosure,” I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that MIRRORS are an underestimated currency. So, go there right now and stand in front of it for a few seconds, then come back and read this after you see what you see and deal with it. If you’re afraid, angry, hopeless, fatigued or apathetic, keep reading and make a plan. If you’re happy and you know it, then you’ll probably know the conclusion before you read it. I love that for you. ❤️
So, what’s a plan? What are your instincts and impulses telling you? Stay here? Leave the U.S.? And go where? To a non-colonized place? Good luck drinking the water. Good luck living in balance with the plants and animals that are roaming freely without care or concern for you. It’s not an impossible lifestyle, but you’ll need a bit of luck to increase your life expectancy.
So let’s say you stay and embrace the turf you were born in. What’s the plan? Should we organize? Who are we organizing with? What are the group politics and beliefs?
Stop there, I have a tiny solution that may help you get through today with a little more breath capacity.
Sometimes the only PLAN is simply to take the BEST care of yourself as naturally, physically and mentally POSSIBLE. “Put on your own oxygen mask first…”When you live that way and people ask you what you do for a living, remember that gainful employment includes relying on your knowledge of 8 BASIC NEEDS and the INNER RESOURCES which exist to meet them to ensure your SURVIVAL.
You can’t THRIVE, until you do a bit more than SURVIVE. Sometimes, surviving is the most radical thing you can do to protect yourself and your loved ones. Those of you who are privileged enough to do a bit more have a social obligation to help more than just the people in your immediate circle if you expect the other people to be around to wash your cars, cook your food, mow your lawns, style your hair, clean your houses and build your data centers.
So let’s identify the 8 BASIC NEEDS, expanding on Maslow’s theory:
Food
Water
Safety
Clothing
Shelter
Communication
Navigation
Love
For 2 million years, HUMANS have met these needs in creative and expressive ways. Because art is life and life is art, there will never not be a need for free expression if we’re leaving footprints behind for the generations to come.
There has never been a time in recorded history when people didn’t find some minuscule way to divide each other into itty bitty groups on groups on groups. All the infinite isms are traumas as old as humans and there is no cure for any of it; racism, imperialism, capitalism, communism, all the isms.
Anti-racism education exists now thanks to scholars like Ibram X. Kendi, Yaba Bley and many others, so that we can pick at the scabs of these traumas less often, soothing the wounds, but the injury will always be there until the end of time.
So, plan to take care of YOURSELF because you are exactly where you are meant to be according to the divine unfolding of YOUR OWN LIFE and the world is much more amazing because you are in it.
Namaste 🙏🏽
