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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

Photo of Ross Castle in Killarney, Ireland, taken the day before the El Paso shooting. Photo looks up at the castle from the water.

Responding to White Supremacist Terror, This Time in El Paso

August 4, 2019

This image from Zion National Park in Utah (southwestern United States) shows a trail leading toward striated sandstone boulders. Green trees, blue sky, and puffy white clouds from the photo.

Self-Inquiry and Social Justice: What’s Walking Got to Do with It?

July 25, 2019

This image shares the quote “What’s clear is the need to repeat and repeat and repeat—strongly—anger and disapproval at detaining and imprisoning people,” against a dark blue background representing the night sky.

Toward Public Outcry: Why I’ll Keep Repeating #AbolishICE and #CloseTheCamps

July 2, 2019

This image (mostly white and green) shares the text “This summer, what are you being called to create or put into practice or do differently? For inspiration, see Heart-Head-Hands.com” with an arrangement of succulents.

How Small and Sustained Actions Turn Resolutions into Habits

June 19, 2019

This e-course announcement shows a yellow sunflower and blue sky. It includes a textbox with the following information: “E-COURSE AVAILABLE NOW! Career Discernment for Academics: Aligning Career with Commitments. Self-paced study, exercises, coaching, and more ...”

What Is Career Discernment?

June 7, 2019

Against a blue background are 3 bottles of essential oils—from left to right: tea tree, peppermint, and eucalyptus—all the same size (1 fl. oz.).

A Minimalist Guide to Essential Oils

May 22, 2019

Here a teal-blue hiking backpack (lighter day-pack with thermos visible) sits against a stone bench.

Turning 40 with the Gift of 40 Miles: Why I’m Taking Myself on Walks This Month

May 8, 2019

This image from the Inside Higher Ed article (credit: Istockphoto.com/malchev) represents seasonal change. A single nature scene (life of a tree) is divided into quadrants: moving clockwise from the lower-left through a snowy landscape to pink blossoms to green leaves to fallen autumn leaves.

It’s More than End-of-the-Year Exhaustion: Semester Rhythms and Recurring Burnout

April 25, 2019

This image shows slices of red cabbage (purple and white in appearance) slightly overlapping with each other atop a white cutting board.

Roasted Red Cabbage: A Simple and Delicious Veggie

April 10, 2019

Book cover for My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem (2017, Central Recovery Press).

Responding to Injustice: Why Settling the Nervous System and Slowing Response Times Matter

March 31, 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 ...