Lindsay L. O'Connor

For our work in the world to be grounded, sustainable, & rooted in love, we must continually attend to our inner work. Inner work includes healing from white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, homophobia, etc (systems of oppression harm oppressed & oppressors in different ways).

Examples of inner work:

• Naming & honoring our grief
• Developing self-compassion that makes room for compassion for others
• Identifying habitual patterns of behavior that have served to protect us
• Identifying & tending to our feelings & wounds
• Looking beneath surface level desires to discover core desires
• Building shame resilience
• Distinguishing love from enmeshment
• Naming & owning our needs w/o judging them
• Exploring healthy ways to get our needs met
• Developing a habit of curiosity about own thoughts, feelings, body wisdom, & triggers
• Repairing broken trust with our bodies, minds, hearts, & traumatized parts
• Noticing/honoring our window of tolerance & getting support to slowly, gently expand it
• Slowly, gently increasing our capacity to be with what is
• Learning how to care for ourselves when we become dysregulated
• Learning to distinguish what is mine (to feel, to do, to believe) & what isn’t
  •Getting in touch with our inner knowing
• Reparenting younger/wounded parts of ourselves
• Learning to access felt safety that lets us heal, imagine, take risks, play& create