The practice of political internal self-reflection is just as important as external activism. Tackling your implicit bias is a meditation on becoming more loving. Learning requires being open to being wrong, to be willing to let in new information. This current moment in history is (once again) demonstrating how detrimental to progress the human ego can be. Unpack your conditioning, exude radical acceptance, and like a drop in the ocean, you can become the change you wish to see in the world.

Living at this moment in history, where capitalism demands unsustainable productivity at greater and greater cost to humanity and our planet, burnout is inevitable. Navigating burnout requires self-care, self-compassion, and the understanding that it is a perfectly reasonable reaction to an unreasonable situation. Under a system that benefits from our suffering, rest is revolutionary.

Surrender gives way to bliss, acceptance, inner peace, and letting your intuition guide you along the path of your highest good, but it isn’t easy. Get into the habit of trusting the timing of your life. Everything is unfolding to create who you are becoming. Rejoice in the knowing that you are exactly where you are supposed to be.

When you haven’t learned discernment and you’re in the head space of being wound so tightly that you take everything personally, hell can definitely be other people. But when you learn to let go of the desire to control others, when you realize you can only control yourself, and when you learn to discern where the love is, heaven can be other people, too.

Trying to avoid the discomfort of facing the consequences of our own actions is what drives a lot of toxic patterns of behavior. This impulse is also what blocks us from being able to learn from our mistakes so that we can stop repeating them. There are few things more miserable than being stuck in a cycle that’s making you miserable. What if consequences are good, actually?

When you become accustomed to chaos you either embrace it through managing the chaos of others, or creating chaos yourself (and more often than not, some combination of the two). Both modes of operating only serve to create more chaos. If what you’re seeking is peace, you gotta get off the wheel, get those feet on the ground, and find a new way of being–one that’s rooted in love.

Authenticity requires a certain amount of ego-shedding. Identifying too hard with the roles we play in life (many of which are forced upon us through our conditioning) is a good way to lose the plot of the story of our lives as individuals. Sometimes its important to ask ourselves “Am I living, or am I LARPing?”

It's true that healing isn’t linear–it's messy, at times ugly, and heartbreaking; the struggle to feel better can feel like an obstacle course fraught with one’s own fears and insecurities. But there is an exponential trend to the path to healing; meaning there are some depths of despair and hardship experiences that the tools of self-love and resilience will protect you from ever needing to revisit again. And what a gift that is. If nothing else, there’s always the light of a clear blue morning.

Being seen can feel uncomfortably vulnerable and deeply triggering–especially if it’s the first time you’ve ever felt it. Realizing how long you’ve gone without such a simple human need can uncover wounds that are older than memories. It also leaves you open to more negativity, judgment, and rejection. It’s ok. If you can lean into the discomfort, being seen can be incredibly liberating. It can lead to uncharted levels of self-love and confidence. So go forth! And be seen!

Surrender is an active process, but progress is ever-unfolding. Evolution can be autonomic if you simply surrender to your own expansion. The ego resists growth because each realization and release brings about it’s demise–but it is through this process of death and rebirth that we become.