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Welcome to Heart-Head-Hands: Everyday Living for Justice

You’ll find here an educational space focused on feeling, thinking, and doing (that is, everyday living) for justice.

As an educator, I take, as a starting point, that our fully embodied selves matter in the world. We can’t just think our way out of the incredible injustices, dehumanization, violence, and wrongdoing that characterize everyday life. We must feel and act, too.

We need our heart, head, and hands for envisioning and enacting a more just world. We need deep commitments to justice and an attitude of “try-try again” for striving to live out these commitments—both in everyday moments and for the long haul.

This vision guides the work you’ll find here, but don’t let BIG thinking fool you. There’s lots of attention to small matters, too. Weaving the mundane and material with deeply relational, ideological, and spiritual matters, this is a space for you. A messy, imperfect, human space. A space for making commitments, striving, learning, and unlearning.

Beth Godbee is standing in front of a bookshelf, wearing a bright orange shirt, an orange swirl necklace, and black sweater. Beth is smiling and channeling a sense of possibility.
Beth Godbee, Ph.D.
Writer, Educator, Researcher, Coach

How Do I Get Involved?

Take a look around the site, explore some recent posts, and check out a course or two. Reach out if you’d like to try coaching, and subscribe via Patreon for additional content, tailored feedback, and community support.

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Heart-Head-Hands is integral to my personal growth and to living my commitments. I’ve turned here for many things, including writing groups, (re)commitment hours, and coaching. No matter the offering, I so appreciate the thoughtfulness and the research that Beth puts into each one. I especially love the resources she shares, as they allow me to learn and to explore many of my questions.” —Chloe in California

Beth is a wonderful teacher: compassionate and tough and smart, smart, smart! Most of all, she teaches from the inside. She does the work. Just the teacher and guide I have needed over time.” —Kathy in Wisconsin

Beth’s work with Heart-Head-Hands has completely transformed my relationship to writing. I met Beth at the point where I was experiencing paralyzing writer’s block. Beth’s guidance, support, and caring helped ease my way back into writing. I’ve begun to love writing again. ” —Kylie in New York

Beth not only listens deeply but also reflects back the questions you didn’t even realize that you were asking, offering them out for future discernment.” —Jen in Wisconsin

Recent Posts

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Doing the Holidays Differently: Untangling from the Mythical Norm and Revising Rituals for “the Holiday Season”

Preface: This post took me more than six weeks to write. I started drafting on the winter solstice, so it feels right to publish on the cross-quarter day imbolc. I’ve needed the time to sit with the questions I share in this post—questions that are sure to keep evolving. I hope you’ll come with me ... Read more ...

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Begin the New Year with a Writing Group

Registration is open for writing groups starting in January! Writing groups can support us in many ways—from holding creative space to building community with other writers. I’m excited about a few new things: There are now options to join the weekly group on Tuesdays, Fridays, or both days. Dr. ... Read more ...

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Voting as Harm Reduction, Public Outcry, and Collective Responsibility

On the eve of elections in the United States, I share three orientations to voting: voting as harm reduction, public outcry, and collective responsibility. These are three ways I think about voting as everyday action aligned with striving toward justice. Three ways to vote even when it hurts, even ... Read more ...

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From Jenin to Memphis to Atlanta, the wave of grief from losing our people to cops & soldiers must end. Defund them:

1. Abolish the police and #StopCopCity. #DefundThePolice
2. Stop funding Israel's massacres of the Palestinian people. #StopArmingIsrael

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This blog post took me more than six weeks to writ This blog post took me more than six weeks to write. I started drafting on the winter solstice, so it feels right to publish on the cross-quarter day imbolc.
 
I’ve needed the time to sit with the questions I share in this post. Offering because I know I’m not alone in these longings.
 
"Doing the Holidays Differently: Untangling from the Mythical Norm and Revising Rituals for “the Holiday Season”: https://heart-head-hands.com/doing-the-holidays-differently/ --> link in bio. <3
 
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On February 24th I will be opening a portal, and I hope so many of you meet me there. Link in my bio, more details below.

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What if a vibrant, multiracial movement for justice is within our grasp? What practices make it possible for us to not only build this movement, but to be its courageous membership?

In this special event, Autumn Brown will guide participants through a Black Feminist approach to healing the wound of disconnection inherent in white supremacy and racial capitalism. In this participatory keynote, we will map the practices that will build a vibrant, multiracial movement, and remedy the fault lines that we are so often re-inscribing within our movements from the very culture of dominance and control we want to dismantle.

Participants will join Autumn in exploring how to cultivate mutual resilience so that we can more effectively resist the ideology of racial capitalism and racial practice, and Autumn will offer a set of practices for moving in formation and sustaining human connection as we navigate a time of rapid change. This session is an opportunity to pause and make contact with a greater reality, remembering that, as Makani Themba once said, “We are always just a breath away from freedom.”

We will explore…
What becomes possible when Black Feminism is the salve applied to the core wound of white supremacy that lives in us all?

What becomes possible when we acknowledge not only our inherited and lived racialized trauma, but also the inherited and lived roots of our resilience?

How can we use the practices of rigor, discipline, and accountability in our movements to move toward dignity and freedom, and away from shame-based practices?

This participatory webinar is open to all folks working to build a liberatory world. If you have been feeling disconnected, burnt out from organizing and anti-oppression work, and are yearning for a practice space to revitalize and reconnect you back to the sacred work of freedom, this webinar is for you. Whether you are an experienced organizer, a healing practitioner, or new to freedom work, this is an invitation to be in presence and practice with us.
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We’re all too used to our dead bodies. I’m tired of the spectacle. Even what we do on social media. There’s really nothing else to explain. I’m not writing anymore obituaries. #tyrenichols
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“The brutal murder of Tyre Nichols marks another lost future at the hands of police. The release of the video itself shows a horrific disregard for human life; we should not have to see such graphic footage to understand the gravity of his death.

 We mourn with his family, especially his mother, who he called out for in his final moments, and are devastated by this senseless loss of life. 

That is why ending state-sanctioned violence is a key part of our overall mission to advance Reproductive Justice. 

Reproductive Justice is the right to have children, to not have children, and more importantly to live in a community where our families are safe and free from threats of violence and death. 

Tyre, like so many other young Black men whose lives were taken in this way before him, deserved to live a full, happy, healthy life. 

We are working to build a world where we not only survive, but we can thrive, fully liberated from systemic threats to our lives.” 

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About Beth Godbee

I'm an educator and former writing studies professor who believes our fully embodied selves matter in the world. We can’t just think our way out of the incredible injustices, dehumanization, violence, and wrongdoing that characterize everyday life. We must feel and act, too. [Pronouns: she/her.] Read more ...

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