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Follow The Flow In Your Day. Each Day May Be Different. Expand. Listen. Create. Lend A Hand. Stand In Solidarity. Be Moved. Routine Has Taken A Pause For Now. What Moves You To Action? Are You Inspired To Create, Start A Petition, Design A New Program, Do Some Work On Your Own Mental Fitness, Create Some Space For Reflection Or Time With God. What Is Speaking To Your Heart And Challenging You To Believe You Can Be More Of The Person You Truly Are?
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I Can Surely Say I am Flowing In My Writing, And My Most Creative And Inspiring Place. I Am Preparing And Being My Most Creative Self For Purpose. Part of My Purpose Includes Inspiring And Working With You.
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To Be A Part Of Change Happening In Our World Today, Here Are A Few Resources To Check Out To Get Involved Or Locate Support:
Additional Resources Will Be Added Weekly:
Generational Trauma, Systemic Racism. and Violence Need To Be Addressed for Emotional Healing To Take Place. Environments That Are Safe Promote Healing For Marginalized Black Communities And A Place For Communities And Our World To Heal Together.
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Change Can Be Inspired Through How We Vote and In Legislation We Vote On:
https://www.usa.gov/register-to-vote
https://www.splcenter.org/vote-your-voice
https://bass.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/rep-bass-continues-push-police-reform
Our Democracy – Hold The Line: https://holdthelineguide.com/
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Pull Up For Change: Calling On Organizations And Brands For Having A Non-Diverse Staff In Leadership Roles While Fighting For Economic Opportunities for Black People
https://www.instagram.com/pullupforchange/
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CBXLf5xgbyh/?igshid=cqa2cctx5ukt
10. NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc. – https://www.naacpldf.org/
Share Our Strength
No Kid Hungry is a national campaign run by Share Our Strength, a nonprofit working to solve problems of hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world. After 25 years of successfully investing in local nonprofits and helping find the best approaches to eradicating poverty and hunger, Share Our Strength launched No Kid Hungry in 2010.
As a child hunger organization, ending childhood hunger is our primary focus, though Share Our Strength continues to invest in and develop other campaigns.
Learn more about Share Our Strength and our other work at ShareOurStrength.org.
At RAICES, we defend the rights of immigrants and refugees, empower individuals, families, and communities, and advocate for liberty and justice.
We are the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit working to promote justice for all by providing free and low-cost legal services to underserved immigrant children, families, and refugees. While our footprint and legal services are Texas-based, we advocate for immigrant communities nation-wide and we have a national voice in the ongoing fight for immigrant rights.
The best place to learn more about RAICES is www.raicestexas.org.
On our site you can:
Give Kids The World Village is an 84-acre, nonprofit resort in Central Florida that provides weeklong, cost-free vacations to children with critical illnesses and their families.
The Village and its community partners provide children and their families accommodations in fully-furnished villas, transportation, tickets to theme parks, meals, daily entertainment and much more.
Each year 27,000 children in the United States are diagnosed with a critical illness. Half of all children eligible for a wish through a partnering wish-granting organization choose to visit Central Florida and its collection of theme parks and other attractions.
Our goal, quite simply, is to provide everything these deserving families need to make their trip the vacation of a lifetime. Since 1986, more than 175,000 children and families have had their dreams fulfilled in a whimsical Village unlike any other place on earth.
It’s important to understand that even states that have stand your ground laws still have certain restrictions when it comes to using force in self-defense. For example, they may require that the threat of perceived harm is objectively reasonable and that the force used be proportional to the threat. Stand your ground laws may also require that the person using self-defense be at the location lawfully (no trespassing, for example) and not be the initial aggressor in the altercation.
States that have passed stand your ground laws include:
Note: Some states have adopted stand your ground-like doctrines through judicial interpretation of their self-defense laws — but they’re not included on this list.
On the other end of the legal spectrum, some states impose a duty to retreat. A duty to retreat generally means that you can’t resort to deadly force in self-defense if you can safely avoid the risk of harm or death (by walking away, for example). If that’s not an option, say if you were cornered or pinned down and facing serious harm or death, then you would be authorized to use deadly force in self-defense.
It’s important to note that, even in duty-to-retreat states, there’s no duty to retreat from an intruder in your home. These states all adhere to some version of the castle doctrine as well.
While some states let you stand your ground, in others you may be prosecuted for killing someone if you could have safely walked away from the confrontation. To learn more about self-defense laws in your state, contact a local criminal defense attorney.
Sixty-three percent of middle-income Americans say they’re unable to afford a $500 car repair or a $1,000 emergency room bill.
The majority of Americans in undeserved communities live without financial opportunity, many in a generational cycle of poverty.
We’re on a mission to disrupt that. Here’s how.
Our focus is financial dignity and inclusion. We equip young people and adults with the financial tools and education to secure a better future—coaching them through their personal aspirations and life’s challenges, and facilitating their journey to financial independence.
Since 1992, we have been moving America from civil rights to “silver rights” with the mission of making free enterprise and capitalism work for the undeserved.
Our mission connects the legacy of the Freedman’s Bank, established by President Abraham Lincoln more than 150 years ago to integrate all Americans into our nation’s economic life, and the second part of Dr. Martin Luther King’s integration dream—the integration of the dollar, under the banner of “silver rights”—rights to financial literacy, access to capital, and equity of opportunity, for all.
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Healing The Wounds Of Trauma, Inequality & Inspiring Solidarity.
Everyone Has A Darkside That Can Desire To Fly Into A Rage. Most People Don’t Act on it.
Mental Fitness and Dealing With Our Internal State Can Often Help Us Relate More Kindly And Honestly With Ourselves. We Can Then Choose Tp Work Through Ways We Treat And Think About Others. What We Fear, Often Can Become What We Misinterpret And Misunderstand And Distance Ourselves From. In Order To Be More Authentically And Honestly Connected, We Must Do The Inner Work And At Times Sit Quietly With The Impact Of What Is Happening Around And Within Us To Have Better Access To The Light And Goodness Inside Of Us. We Are Not Born To Hate. We Learn It Like Most Other Things We Know To Do.
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You And I Can Find The Light Together And View Our Brothers And Sisters Through A Clearer Lens. Earnest Conversations Help Us Get Closer To The Truth Inside Of Us About Who We Really Are As We Do The Work To Become Our Best And Highest Selves Doing Our Best And Highest Good.
-Shantel
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We Become Our Highest Selves When We Seek Understanding, Love, Unity, And Clarity of Vision
A couple clarifying who they are individually and together before jumping the broom/entering into marriage can be one of the best things any couple can do for their relationship. If you have already said your vows, moved past the engagement, and said your I Do’s, you still have an opportunity to strengthen the emotional connection in your love life. we are going through one of the most challenging times our world has experienced in its lifetime with a Pandemic and the navigation of racial tensions and so much trauma and history to work through. It is those who choose to work through them that find the most love, unity, and strength to take into life and whatever challenges may come their way. You and our world can mend things. Love, unity, clarity. and understanding are powerful tools toward creating a space you can live with and more securely navigate through.
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The More We Go Through, The More Support We Need. It Can Make All The Difference. And We All Need It. Noone Is Meant To Walk This World Alone. And Even If We Are Not Alone, To Suffer In Silence. Building Our Mental Strength Is Still Important. Let Me Help You Continue On The Road To Cultivate Your Inner Strength And Lend You Support.
First Step: Call and schedule an appointment.
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The Best part of what I get to do when working with clients is to walk alongside you to not only help you face some of the most hardest truths about what’s happening in your mind and heart, and to help you find your way through them. Perhaps you feel as though you are important to one person in this world or more. And perhaps you have been working on your life for some time on your own. It’s when we are in a place where we can find someone to help us face the hurdles to getting to ourselves and our best self, there is a chance to find our greatest strength and the life that we are our most authentic, empowered, connected, and creative in. I know of that and the strength, wisdom, security, and courage that can result.
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I am allowing myself to feel the impact of the present state of our world. I’m processing it all. My words are forming and I look to share them with you.
What is one of your favorite things to be with when you have a quiet moment? Mine is being immersed in flowers (or reading something that interests me or breathing slow and easy just giving thanks for each breath, a simple prayer), creating a sweet, yet simple flower arrangement. Sometimes its just a matter of placing a few of my faves in a vase. It’s nice when i get to share them. And it brings me joy to do that. My favorite one is peony. I love that they usually come in a stem of 5. To me, its nice to imagine a simple flower growing in community like that. And I love their simple fragrance and the memories they bring.
At other times when quiet is near, I remember things like running a marathon a few years back and how so many supported that cause. At mile 19 I was told I would hit a wall. The wall never came. Instead I held the love and support of those who supported my run and the cause. Memories of them held me close in those moments, and I finished those 26.2 miles. They got me home and my press to meet them when I returned. I was running to honor my family members who in times past who passed away from cancer and I had an aunt who beat it. I was honoring their memory and fight as well as my own to defeat the 26.2 miles ahead of me and raise money for a good cause.
This was a moment that stretched me. These are the times where I hold both beautiful old memories and fresh new ones. They are the things that fill us and hold us as we walk day to day. And one of my newest memories was talking with my good friend Sandy for hours laughing, sharing, and inspiring one another and just checkin’ in. I’m still smiling just thinking about it and soon posting again to inspire you. I imagine you being held by memories that are both old and new for you even when physically we are worlds apart and you are the beholder to your memories and I mine. There is much to know about ourselves in the stillness. In the quiet. Let your heart speak to you to let you know what it needs. It will whisper. Be ever so still as you let this moment guide you to that truth. That’s right, just breathe.
Here are a few photos: It was my first time raising 3.6K for a good cause
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Falling Apart And Coming Together
I feel partnered with a consuming fascination, rather than a person I can find secure and steadfast love with. I struggle with knowing how to take in the increasing disagreement in our love that is coming my way, or how to give the love I know I have inside, I‘d do anything to stop second guessing myself and feeling I‘m making war instead of love. This dilemma leaves me wondering if we‘ll ever be able to find our way back to how we were in times past. I find myself trying to figure out what was different when it felt so much easier. This moment of nostalgia gives me pause, and a reason to fight to stay together. All I know is that our love really matters to me, and I chose my partner for life.
The reality of the conflict we‘re in now makes it harder and harder to believe I can find that ease in love again. Now, I either stay silent or just go along, doing my best to avoid unrelenting combat. I try to find understanding and truth, but I‘m met with silence and indifference in return. I‘m in a stalemate. My partner feels the same. This is how it starts when I become entangled in what disconnects us, the last thing I really want or need. I‘d rather find harmony with my beloved.
Often times we enter into a relationship only to feel down the line like it has become a partnership of one. Or maybe that‘s what it‘s been all along. I don‘t know anymore. One partner pulls the other, the other feels compelled to comply, without will, without choice. This disconsolate place is very rocky ground, and it makes me feel like I‘m losing myself and my partner. I wonder if the journey we took to find each other has simply run its course.
Or perhaps it‘s just reached a point where there‘s a chance for a new beginning.
Where are you and your partner today? Like so many couples, the two of you have found yourselves in the midst of a pandemic, with everything opening up around you including the space and distance you feel growing between. With each uneasy conversation or look of dis–ease, with each question that goes unanswered or words left unsaid, it becomes more unbearable. Your relationship is flatlining before your eyes, while the two biggest signs that are devouring what you‘ve built remain off your radar.
Emotional disconnection and lack of affection are the flashing red lights that a relationship is in trouble. Sound familiar? Have you felt disconnected for some time, blaming one another while wondering if you should blame yourself? A part of you may feel at fault, while another part is just exhausted and longing for the security of someone you can rely on. Maybe you feel you should have spoken up sooner or not been so silent. But it‘s hard to know what to say when the relationship has come to this point. You feel you‘ve given your all, and all you‘d like in return–something so hard to find now–is comfort. So you take a shower instead. It feels safer just to let the water wash the day away.
How we adapt to stressful circumstances depends on what we see as truth, and the best way to express that truth. Do you demand to be heard? Have you forgotten how to listen to someone else‘s truth? We behave our way to disconnection, although perhaps not intentionally. More and more, our truth and that of our partner don‘t seem to mirror one another. Each of us reads only the cues that trigger us, not what‘s driving the frustration that has built up over time, making it difficult to see the needs hidden beneath the angry words. That‘s how emotional disconnection grows.
Even in the best of times, love can be complicated, especially when there‘s no one to guide you when you‘re slipping away from one another. If you just had a road map, perhaps you could find your way back to one another. We often do better when we know a better way. And what we don‘t know can become potholes in the road, or a dead end. So much rides on finding the way back, and our compass isn‘t working. You‘re only doing what you know. A different conversation, one that comes with support and guidance, can help you find new solutions to bring you closer together again, to make your love stronger than ever before.
Maybe for the first time, you can start to see the real problems beneath the disconnect, so that you can begin to tackle them and find a lasting solution to your dilemma.
When we‘re at a loss for words but speak anyway, perhaps with unintended results, the foundation of love‘s fairy tale begins to shake. Especially now, in the midst of a pandemic, it may feel that there‘s no room or time for hearts to grow fonder in confined and constricted spaces. Love‘s nest has become consumed with all that consumes you both. You need a space to catch your breath and begin to believe in resolution and repair.
Your love can be strengthened when your communication becomes clearer and more loving. At the end of the day, it‘s up to each of you to decide whether that love is worth saving. This applies before or after “I do.”
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I am allowing myself to feel the impact of the present state of our world. I’m processing it all. My words are forming and I look to share them with you.
Sincerely,
Shantel
