founder director
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social justice warrior
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workaholic
party girl
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trauma
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burnout
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divorce
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rage
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fear
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suicidal
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“I drove him, drove them all,
to be first, be bold, be perfect—be the greatest.
What I did not do was drive them
to be whole, to be free. ”
Casey Gerald
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“My question at the time was simply: What is
wrong with me? Ever wonder that? If so, my final
admonition is this: Stop. Drop whatever's in your
hand. Leave your basket in the aisle. Retrace your
steps out the door. Find the crack. Try to find its
source, understand its reason, excuse or not. Try.
That is all I knew to do.”
Casey Gerald
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“I don’t want us to have to work twice as hard
to have to prove our humanity.
I don’t want to die for social change like our
ancestors did.”
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“I realized I wasn’t upholding my end of the
sacred bargain: My life is a miracle that cannot
be recreated. I can never get these hours, weeks,
years back.
Each day should be lived on purpose.”
adrienne maree brown
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founder director
public speaker
social justice warrior
BADASS
workaholic
party girl
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“Small is good, small is all.
(The large is a reflection of the small.)”
adrienne maree brown
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where are my motives?
what would I do if no one was watching?
how do I act out of love for myself?
does this get me closer to being whole & free?
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“Nothing is required of me more than being,
and creating. Simultaneously being present
with who I am, who we are as a species...
and creating who we must become, and
within that who I must become.”
adrienne maree brown
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“I drove him, drove them all,
to be first, be bold, be perfect—be the greatest.
What I did not do was drive them
to be whole, to be free. ”
Casey Gerald
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“We heal ourselves,
and we heal in relationship,
and from that place, simultaneously,
we create more space for healed communities,
healed movements,
healed worlds.”
adrienne maree brown
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free that
your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
Albert Camus
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“Transform yourself to transform the world”
Grace Lee Boggs
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“I have a radio. It picks up only two
stations: Life and Death.
I turn the death off, now that I know the
sound.
The diddy bop of death.
I sit in silence if I have to.”
Casey Gerald
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“Not trying to get by
I’m trying to get free”
Mereba