We’ve spent so long in a state of hypervigilance, fear of socializing, and isolation that it’s hard to remember the toll all this takes on our spirit. If you’re feeling burnt out, tempted toward despair, hopeless, unsatisfied, and incapable of raising your energy, you are not alone. You’re in good company, and you’re likely already doing all the right things to lay groundwork for your future. Tell your inner critic to take a vacation; we’re in this for the long haul.

Revolution doesn’t immediately mean bloody battlefields. In fact, the battles often take place within us as we fight internalized social pressures while nurturing our own healing.

Remember that all press is good press. Rather than give power to the systems that we know aren’t working, let’s shake them with our own disbelief in their success. Play big and live small even and especially if it frustrates the capitalistic mob.

Though the delta variant continues to rage and, at least in our neck of the woods, fire season approaches, we refuse to give in or give up. Instead, we remind ourselves that we are playing a long game and that, even if the cosmic earthquakes have cracked the foundations, even if the ripple effects haven’t reached the penthouses yet, worldwide shifts in consciousness have begun.