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how to sustain work rooted in love
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:
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using the enneagram in discernment
The Enneagram is a helpful tool that can point to specific red and green flags for discernment. While there is endless diversity among people of the same Enneagram type, sometimes groupings around commonalities are helpful, especially regarding the three centers of intelligence: thinking (logic/objectivity), feeling (feelings and motives of self and others), and doing (purposeful,…
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Dreamless: a gun violence lament
by Lindsay L. O’Connor Dreamless: a gun violence lamentby Lindsay L. O’Connor She’s never been a good sleepermy eight-year-old daughterstill wakes up in the night,afraidlike her sister did for so long.The other dayshe saidI know you said when I have bad dreamsto think of a way to change the endingand make it goodbutI don’t like…
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books for women’s history month
Happy Women’s History Month!🎉 These are some amazing books by/for/about women. We #ReadWomen all year long, but we celebrate extra in March🙌🏻 1. Pushout by Monique W. Morris 2. All About Love by bell hooks 3. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 4. Fat Talk by Virginia Sole-Smith 5. The Body is Not an Apology…
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Ash Wednesday Valentine
Some days Some days Some days… I go for a walk Just to listen for the poetry that surrounds me. If I listen closely, I hear the poetry that you’re speaking. I talked to a stranger as we beheld together a perfect cloudless blue sky— even saw two butterflies, though it’s winter. Tell that to…
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favorite books by Black authors
On this first day of Black History Month, I wanted to share some of my favorite books by Black authors. You can search #loconnor_blackauthors on Instagram to see reviews of these as well and others. Here is a post with picture books for Black History Month. Of course, we read books by Black authors and…
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fear is (not) a liar
Fear is (not) a liarBy Lindsay L. O’ConnorI used to try to divorce myself from inconvenient feelingsthat seemed to:- stand in the way of my goals- threaten my connection with people I loved or depended on- make me uncomfortable.Those poor dears!They cowered in the dark, shoved down, covered up,sealed tight by shame, guilt, and anxiety.Do…
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savior complex
O God, Be to my loved one what I have been trying to be but cannot. This is the prayer that surfaced while I had a precious 30 minutes alone for a walk this morning. Particularly for those of us who have more porous boundaries (empaths, HSPs, Enneagram numbers in the dependent stance, folks who…
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Books Read in 2023: The Complete List
My complete list of books read in 2023! I feel compelled to share it because there were too many good ones to include in my best of 2023 list. I intentionally read more fiction this year but also spent too much time finishing books I wasn’t into. My 2024 goal is to DNF more books…
Lindsay L. O'Connor
Spiritual Director | Enneagram Professional | Writer | Speaker
Lindsay L. O'Connor 