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f*ck forgiveness. be a menace. (opens the original)
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yeah, I said it.forgiveness is a tool of oppression, and it’s time we unlearned forgiveness so that we can live truly self-determined lives.In today’s episode we are redefining “forgiveness.”In our testimony section, we’re tussling with bell hooks’s Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery.In our Living in Alignment segment, Brendane reviews The Polygamist (spoilers 1:06:46 - 1:10:49) and gives some practices to cultivate the primary form of forgiveness that matters: self-forgiveness.</
it's not too late to take your life back (opens the original)
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“I am who the world and I have never seen before.”Are you feeling overwhelmed? Like life is unlivable, untenable, and truly just not it? Perhaps you have been giving too much of your time and energy to everything and everybody else, at the expense of your own bodyspiritmind. Enough! You cannot do the work of empire by destroying your own life, or worse, submitting your destiny to fear.It’s time to take your life back. Your destiny awaits you. Your ancestors and spirit guides want to assist you i
a psalm for 33 (opens the original)
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