Hi Friends-
I'm off my Thursday send schedule this week because I had the great good fortune to go pick up my partner in Washington, D.C. a few days ago. She had been stranded in Peru after they closed the borders quite suddenly — but she finally made it out! For those of you who have been following along with my pop-up podcast Dear Ale, you can tune into the final episode. Huge thanks to those of you who listened and sent some positive juju our way. It worked! : )
Speaking of positive juju, I am going to send some back to you. In the form of a new event that's quite different from a live Q&A. This Thursday at 5pm EDT, I'm going to lead a reiki-based, group energy healing session on Crowdcast — Open-Hearted Presence: A Guided 60-Minute Energy Healing.
During the event, I'll be using my words to work with your energy as I guide you through a 60-minute healing session. I'll talk you through the breath, different visualizations, and physical sensations in order to bring you back into open-hearted presence and rebalance your energy system.
I've been doing quite a bit of distance reiki with friends one-on-one since the lockdown started, and I suddenly had the insight that it could be shared much more broadly. I would love to get a huge group of people together to enter this open-hearted space together. 💗
Learn more and RSVP here →
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p.s. It's an odd time to ask, but if anyone in NYC is looking for a new perch, my friend Andy is seeking a roomie for his beautiful apartment in Fort Greene. If you might be interested, just reply to this email. : )
| | NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS
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I check in every 2 or 3 days if I'm feeling strong, but I am actively *not* reading the news most days, and I can't tell you how helpful it is for my sanity. I'm reading very little and being very choosy when I do.
Below are a handful of things I've consumed that either took my mind away from the dark land of pandemic paranoia, or that gave me a fresh and thoughtful perspective on how to navigate this moment and what we might do on the other side.
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React, respond, or initiate? From Seth Godin: "When society is hit by a crisis, you can do three things: react, respond or initiate. Reacting means a negative reaction to external input, such as news or medication, for example. Responding means that you respond to an external signal to make it better, and initiating means helping even if nobody asked you to."
Debbie Millman interviews Chanel Miller. This is a beautiful, in-depth interview with Chanel Miller, who recently published the memoir Know My Name. As we are all figuring out how to navigate crisis, Chanel's perspective on how she recovered, and ultimately thrived, in the wake of her assault by Brock Turner is incredibly inspirational. It's so clear from this conversation that she's such a strong, thoughtful, eloquent, artistic woman. Recommended, but be mindful of potentially triggering content.
That discomfort you're feeling is grief. One of the world's foremost grief researchers on what we're all feeling right now: "Anticipatory grief is that feeling we get about what the future holds when we're uncertain. Usually it centers on death. We feel it when someone gets a dire diagnosis or when we have the normal thought that we'll lose a parent someday. Anticipatory grief is also more broadly imagined futures. There is a storm coming. There's something bad out there. With a virus, this kind of grief is so confusing for people. Our primitive mind knows something bad is happening, but you can't see it. This breaks our sense of safety."
Nick Cave on creativity in times of crisis: "As an artist, it feels inept to miss this extraordinary moment. Suddenly, the acts of writing a novel, or a screenplay or a series of songs seem like indulgences from a bygone era. For me, this is not a time to be buried in the business of creating. It is a time to take a backseat and use this opportunity to reflect on exactly what our function is — what we, as artists, are for."
+ Illustrator Wendy MacNaughton is doing a rad drawing class for kids every M-F at 10am PST on Instagram.
+ "Anyone engaged in a labor-intensive project has a secret elixir to joy."
+ A list of resources for artists weathering the pandemic.
+ Excellent: Artworks created with household items.
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The artwork is from: Betty Acquah.
Link ideas from: Caryne Hayes, Lorraine Weiss, and Queer Art.
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Hi, I'm Jocelyn, the human behind this newsletter. I created the online course RESET, a cosmic tune-up for your workday, and I host Hurry Slowly — a podcast about how you can be more productive, creative, and resilient by slowing down. | | | | |
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