I’m not on instagram anymore which is one of the best things that’s ever happened to me and my wellbeing lately and I was just working on some writing this morning and feeling like — everything I write is a reference to so many things but most not directly, so I need a place for you to see where a lot of this comes from. Most of it I can’t remember, but I’ll build this list as I have time, to try to retrace my steps as well as I can. May these resources be of use to you. (They’re in no particular order.)

Codependents Anonymous is a generous, grounded system which supports healing of countless people including me on the daily without hierarchy, professionalization, or costing anything.

How it continues to transform my thinking to consider a pronoun which includes the subjectivity of other than human species, which I first heard about from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s writing. I recommend her books but that link is an interview.

Nature does not exist by Farmer Rishi also continues to transform my thinking and seems like a key to our healing.

How Molly Prentiss thinks and therefore writes has been buoying me for at least 15 years

So many of Julio Torres’s magnificent creations, but here’s him reading the children’s book he made called I Want To Be A Vase.

Junior Clemons’ thinking in the form of writing aka love, always.

“The blood will bring the color of love to your face” and the concept of massaging the earth with your feet came from Thich Nhat Hanh, where would we be without him (?!) he has so very many excellent books which transmit the aliveness, the heart, in a direct line.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore - her books, her spirit, her vibe, so you can remember punitive thinking hurts us all on so many levels, prisons and policing only cause more suffering, to remind us to keep asking what are we looking toward and building, not just what we’re moving away from.

Ross Gay’s books, thinking, heart, forever.

Matthew Brensilver continues to speak the dharma in ways that enliven it for me. Wednesdays on youtube and other places too.

Pascal Auclair emits the dharma in the most soulful way!

Miranda Mellis’s books and thinking and teaching and living perpetually inspire.

All of Amelia Hruby’s projects and vibes. She was my quitting instagram doula, my podcast producer, and she can be yours too, start with her podcast off the grid.