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seven balls of yarn (in shades of yellow, orange, cream, green, and teal) for my current crochet project

Questions for Honoring Creative Energy and Play

February 13, 2021
Image shares one writing group reflection: “many life changes happen through writing, especially when writing brings attention to our built-in assumptions and ways of being in the world” in pink text against a pink background. A notebook, thermos, pens, and papers are also part of the pink background.

Reflections on Writing Groups

February 3, 2021
Book cover of Rhetorical Crossover: The Black Presence in White Culture by Cedric D. Burrows. Background photo by Marion S. Trikosko shows demonstrators holding signs during the March on Washington, 1963.

Q&A with Cedric Burrows about His New Book Rhetorical Crossover: The Black Presence in White Culture

January 27, 2021
This tweet from adrienne maree brown reads: “words matter. Coup: a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government. Terrorism: the unlawful use of force and violence vs persons or property to intimidate or coerce a gvmt, civilian population, or segment thereof. today was not anarchy, not protest. (sedition. insurrection. there's lots of precise options.)”

Words Matter: Naming, Inspiring, Truth-telling, Revealing, and Reckoning with This Moment

January 7, 2021
This image reads “What is currently giving me energy—firing me up or inspiring me? and other questions for the new year …” against a light blue-gray background. A cream-colored candle and flame appear with pink-peach glowing dots. Attribution to Heart-Head-Hands.com appears in the lower right-hand corner.

Contemplative Practices for Setting Intentions and Welcoming the New Year

December 31, 2020
A brown, muddy trail winds through a white, snowy forest scene.

Reflection, Retreat, and Recommitment: Learning from the Winter Woods

December 23, 2020
This promotional flyer (a horizontal banner with a green background) from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette includes photos and titles for all four speakers—Dr. Beth Godbee, Dr. Shoba Subramanian, Dr. Meghan Duffy, and Prof. Ray Schroeder—along images for coffee talk and three-minute thesis events.

Clarifying Your Purpose in Grad School: Workshop Handouts and Resources

December 8, 2020
The text “Interrupting Thanksgiving: Three Responses to Disrupt What’s Normalized on This National Holiday” appears against grey wooden planks and green, white, and orange pumpkins.

Interrupting Thanksgiving: Three Responses to Disrupt What’s Normalized on This National Holiday

November 24, 2020
This image shows vegan flourless mushroom gravy with pieces of onion and mushroom in a brown sauce—in a white bowl, surrounded by a white cloth.

Flourless Mushroom Gravy (Vegan and Gluten-Free)

November 16, 2020
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
A flyer for a workshop being led by Dr. Beth Godbee at Emory. The workshop is called "What Matters to You Most? Career Discernment for a Purposeful Career Path”

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
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This summer, caregiving and family responsibilitie This summer, caregiving and family responsibilities have taken me through the Appalachian Mountains ~ from North Carolina to Tennessee and through Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. In some moments, I’ve felt so unmoored, unsure of where and when I am. But in others, I’ve felt the mountains holding me and reminding me that home is all around.

So, here’s photographic evidence that I grew up in the Appalachian Mountains and even learned to clog at a young age. I found this photo during a family conversation about learning to dance. Yes, I still love to dance. Though, like crocheting stitches, most of the clogging steps are long forgotten—maybe to be remembered?

(And here are a few accompanying recent photos from the mountains.)
It's a wonderful thing to return home to affirming It's a wonderful thing to return home to affirming emails. Here's one about a job offer aligned with commitments! 

From email, shared with permission: 
"I just wanted to send you a quick note to say that I accepted a job offer as _____ at _____! This was one of the roles we looked at in one of our sessions, and I'm very excited that I was able to get a position at a company I feel a strong sense of alignment with. Thank you for your coaching! You were a big part of the process that led to me getting this job!"

It is an incredible honor to be involved in career transitions. And it is incredibly rewarding to witness movement toward more supportive and aligned everyday conditions. 

When so much in the world is hard, coaching still feels like a strong yes. <3

#coaching #careercoach #careercoaching #careerdiscernment #commitments #livingoutcommitments #goodnews #strongyes
There’s so much I want to say about my love for There’s so much I want to say about my love for DC and my anger over this move toward federal control. Please support local organizing and follow calls for how to show up in solidarity in the days to come. 💛

#Repost @freedcproject with @use.repost
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For our friends across the country asking how you can help, this one’s for you.

What’s happening in DC right now is not the first time this administration and its allies have attacked our communities. In March, Congress froze $1.1 billion of DC’s local budget. In addition to the current police escalation, Congress is also trying to overturn several critical local laws.

We want your members of Congress to do everything in their power to stand down federal forces DC, and stop attacks on DC communities for good. Send a letter to your Senators and Representative telling them to stop to it: freedcproject.org/allies (link in bio)
There’s so much I want to say about my love for There’s so much I want to say about my love for DC and my anger over this move toward federal control. Please support local organizing and follow calls for how to show up in solidarity in the days to come. 💛

#Repost @mvmnt4blklives with @use.repost
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Earlier today Donald Trump announced that he is placing MPD under federal control and plans to deploy the National Guard to DC.

This is a dangerous escalation for our communities. But our people have been through things like this before.

Here are three ways everyone can help DC weather what’s ahead, starting tonight.

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This summer, amid many pulls away from writing, I This summer, amid many pulls away from writing, I was able to create a new writing portfolio.

Because my SelectedWorks page was sunsetted this summer, I needed a new way to share publications. The portfolio highlights some, while linking to a fuller list (what I’d share as part of an academic CV). I start with academic publications and then share pieces from public and community writing. And I include a final section of meaningful writing that doesn’t always (or even often) make its way into writing portfolios.

Certainly, publications are part of my writing story. But they aren’t the full story. I reflect on that here: https://heart-head-hands.com/meaningful-writing-in-writing-portfolios/

And share the portfolio here: https://heart-head-hands.com/writing-portfolio/ 

May we tell fuller stories about our writing and ourselves as writers—toward well-lived writing lives. <3

<Image shows the start of my portfolio page with a mix of academic and public publications.>
One thing about my partner Jonathan’s dad is tha One thing about my partner Jonathan’s dad is that he loved Pittsburgh. Here are some photos of the city he loved — with gratitude for walks to help navigate the emotions and many to-dos following his passing. <3
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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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