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This photo shows Tamika Carey, Ph.D. smiling, wearing a pink blouse, and standing outdoors (surrounded by green leaves and a building blurred in the distance).

Q&A with Tamika Carey: “Gestures Are Easy. Reckoning Is Hard.” On Prioritizing Wellness and Liberation

October 23, 2020

This screenshot shows the online article “Forum Theatre: Using Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed to Build Receptive Competence by Rasha Diab, Ph.D. and Beth Godbee, Ph.D.,” part of the website Contemplative Practices for Anti-Oppression Pedagogy. It shows a paragraph of text against a blue background and the black, red, and white book cover of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed.

Invitation to Join Upcoming Theatre of the Oppressed Workshops

October 13, 2020

Against a dark orange background appears the following quote: “It’s important to name that white fragility can manifest in aggression. Or, when not outright aggression, then as defensiveness, which peace studies scholars describe as the first step of offensiveness.”

What Is White Fragility?

September 30, 2020

Career Discernment for a Purposeful Career Path

September 10, 2020

This image shares this week’s question—“How do we build more accountable lives?”—along with meeting information: “Processing the Pandemic with Heart-Head-Hands. Wed, Aug. 12th.” Text appears in a central box that looks like a letter partially out of an envelope. The colors are red, orange, and yellow.

How Do We Build More Accountable Lives?

August 21, 2020

This photo from the 2014 Watson Conference shows the two of us—Beth Godbee (left) and Rasha Diab (right)—standing side-by-side; wearing a mix of blue, black, and green; in front of a brick wall.

Q&A with Rasha Diab: Pursuing Peace as Everyday Practice

August 11, 2020

This photo shows Beth Godbee, Ph.D. -- sitting on a rock surrounded by reflective water, leaves, and rocks. Photo taken at White Oaks Canyon in Shenandoah National Park (in the Appalachian Mountains).

Writing a Commitment Statement

July 31, 2020

This screenshot shares the Self-Compassionate Professor podcast page with a grey and brown color scheme. In addition to sharing the podcast’s name, creator, and theme—“helping academics and former academics find wellness, meaning, purpose, and freedom”—it shares episode 19: “Career discernment with Dr. Beth Godbee,” along with a photo of Beth wearing black and pressing against a grey rock formation.

Career Discernment for Academics: An Interview with Self-Compassionate Professor

July 14, 2020

This image shares this week’s question—“What is becoming intolerable and demands real change?”—along with meeting information: “Processing the Pandemic with Heart-Head-Hands. Wed, July 22nd.” Text appears in a central box that looks like a letter partially out of an envelope. The colors are red, orange, and yellow.

Summer 2020 Is Calling for Change, and Processing Groups Can Support Change-Making Reflection and Re-Commitment

June 29, 2020

To provide a visualization of “resources for racial justice,” this photo shows colorful spines of books by Gloria Anzaldúa, Augusto Boal, Patricia Hill Collins, Paulo Freire, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Elaine Richardson, and Alice Walker, among others.

Resources for Sustaining Momentum and Doing Everyday Racial Justice Work

June 11, 2020

This image shares the quote: “It’s lifelong work to unlearn whiteness … And as lifelong work, this is everyday work: work in the moment and work over time”—in black font against a light orange textbox and white border.

Unraveling Whiteness: A Call for More Courage

May 28, 2020

This image shows vegan + gluten-free mac and cheese—a mix of creamy cheese and pasta (yellow) and spinach and jalapenos (green) in a light green bowl.

Mac and Cheese with a Kick: 4-Ingredient Vegan and Gluten-Free Twist on This Favorite Comfort Food

May 16, 2020

This image shows the Word document "Parenting Myself Right Now ... Spring 2020" that can be downloaded and modified for use. This black-and-white checklist shows characteristics of self-parenting next to days of the weeks, where checks can be added for tracking daily behaviors.

7 Strategies for Soothing Aches and Pains During the Pandemic

April 28, 2020

This image shows Ileana Rodriguez standing next to UW-Madison Badger clothing and mugs (all red and white) inside Scrubs Station in Madison, Wisconsin.

Q&A with Ileana Rodriguez: How Scrubs Station Spreads Hope During the Pandemic

April 21, 2020

This photo shows scattered papers (page proofs) across a wooden floor in a bedroom—with a colorful bedspread, pillows, blanket, sweater, plant, air purifier, bedside table, books, window, and white walls all part of the scene.

Wailing with the Wind: On Disrupting Work During the Pandemic

April 10, 2020

This feature for Agnes Scott College’s #EachForEqual campaign includes logos, the hashtags #IWD2020 and #EachForEqual, and with two images of Beth Godbee wearing orange in nature. The feature has a purple background and includes the following quote: “We can’t just think our way out of incredible injustices … we must feel and act, too. We need our heart, head, and hands for envisioning and enacting a more just world.”

Heart-Head-Hands: A Journal Prompt for These Times

March 31, 2020

This image (taken from the Eventbrite page) shows a colorfully tiled V (like an arrow pointing down) next to workshop information: “What Matters to You Most? Career Discernment for YOUR Career Path” by the Graduate School. Free. Mar. 17.”

What Matters to You Most? Career Discernment for YOUR Career Path

March 13, 2020

A word cloud appears against a light green background with the largest words emphasized. These are precarity, rights, response, together, and pandemic.

Living in a Global Pandemic, Reaching toward Collective Responsibilities

March 11, 2020

A curved row of colored pencils point toward a colorful lightbulb. Lines shaping the lightbulb reach out up the pencils, linking ideas, creativity, and colorful expression.

The Coach as Ideas Editor: How Coaching Facilitates Transformation

February 29, 2020

This image invokes the idea of spell-casting with smoke and light swirling upwards from an open book. “Words Cast Spells” is written above this image, which is framed with rows of candles and a black background.

Words Cast Spells: Spell-Casting for 2020 to Experience Grief, Temperance, and Abundance

February 5, 2020

This ad shares the webinar’s name “A Conversation about Our Relationship s with Food,” the date “Tuesday, January 28th at 8pm EST,” and the websiteaddress “Heart-Head-Hands.com.” Colorful foods are arranged along the bottom, and the background shows light gray wooden planks.

Eating for Justice? Why Explore Relationships with Food

January 23, 2020

Photo shows Traci Higgins (right) and Alexa Eason (left), standing shoulder-to-shoulder, both dressed in black.

Q&A with Traci Higgins: Being of Service in the World

January 10, 2020

This image shows a stack of books with Thich Nhat Hanh’s How to Fight on the top, a blue bookmark sticking out—all against a blue background. These books teach about “complaining” and speaking up as a killjoy.

When Speaking Up at the Holidays Means “Complaining” and Being the Killjoy

December 29, 2019

Vegan and gluten-free stuffed dates ready to eat, scattered across a serving plate: stuffed with a creamy mixture of chocolate, peanut butter, and coconut cream.

Vegan Stuffed Dates: 4-Ingredient Decadent Dessert (vegan and gluten-free)

December 14, 2019

Photo of three generative somatics students in jo practice. Used with permission of gs.

Q&A with Mel Meder: Why Support generative somatics

December 3, 2019

Referral from Mel (participant from Pennsylvania): “The experience taught me a lot about what it takes to actively practice anti-racism.”

3 Reasons to Participate in the 40-Day Practice on Strengthening Emotional Literacies to Counter White Fragility

November 20, 2019

Photo of Alexa Eason standing against a mural on the Civil Rights Trail in Montgomery, Alabama.

Q&A with Alexa Eason: Intern with Heart Head Hands

October 26, 2019

Here Beth is holding the older phone and showing an intense sad emotion, near tears (fear or love?).

From Fear to Love: Working with Emotional Overload

October 11, 2019

Traditional Irish food (bangers and mash) made vegan + gluten-free: jackfruit sausages, mashed potatoes, peas, onions, and mushroom gravy.

Eating Vegan in Ireland

September 25, 2019

The article “Rhetorical and Pedagogical Interventions for Countering Microaggressions” as it appears in the print publication of Pedagogy.

Responding to Microaggressions

September 14, 2019

I’m an educator living in Washington, D.C. with connections to many places, including Wisconsin, Georgia, and Tennessee. I write from my identities as a white, feminist teacher and researcher; reiki and yoga practitioner; hiker and vegan. My deepest commitments are to equity and justice. These commitments lead me to write about intersectional identities, embodiment, power, and rights, among other matters. In this blog, I document my ongoing efforts, struggles, and attitude of “try-try again” to align with these commitments. Read more ...