"Joy is a rebellion"
We've all heard and said it a million times. And it's absolutely true. But it is only a rebellion when you're doing the other side of that work so that you are regulating and balancing out all the chaos.
In a tyrannical government, chaos is their goal. Because if they can keep you distracted, then they can be more destructive. However, when we are rooted and regulated?
That's what they cannot overcome. Because it means we are ready to fight back in ways that actually work.
New on Substack:
Of Rage and Resistance
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how loud the world has become.
Not just noisy, but demanding. The kind of loud that insists you respond immediately, emotionally, publicly. Before the kettle has even finished heating, before I’ve fully arrived in my own body, something is already screaming for outrage, fear, or commentary.
For a long time, I believed that being outraged at every headline was the same thing as caring.
I stayed alert. I stayed informed. I stayed angry. So damn angry. And I told myself this constant state of readiness was responsibility. But what it actually did was keep me reactive. Tight. Perpetually braced. Living from my nervous system instead of my center.
And it took me far too long to recognize this pattern.
