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I Ditched Law School To Follow My (He)art

The moment I stopped demanding The Answer, life resolved The Question. My (he)artwork had been waiting for me in the mountains of Mexico all along, ready to reveal itself when I was ready to see it. But here’s the catch: I would never have found it had I not learned to embrace my “mistakes” along the way as sign posts, not roadblocks. And that’s what I want to share with all of you who are striving to be “unlost”: the road you seek may very well be diverged in what, at first glance, looks like a dead end. There will be tears. Cry them. There will be naysayers. Ignore them. And there will be signs. Follow them. All of them. Because somewhere in that terrifying darkness, your (he)artwork is searching for you.
RKA on The Unlost

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13 in ’13: My Grateful Homecoming to Chiapas

I’m back, baby! After a long journey (in planes, trains, and automobiles, no less) from Bielefeld –> Dusseldorf –> Cancún –> Isla Mujeres –> San Cristóbal de las Casas, I’m finally en casa yet again in Chiapas sweet Chiapas. I dreamt many times of this return over the course of my six months in Germany, [...]

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Stories of the Apocalypse: Fall Back, Move Forward

We wanted to own the future, so we started with the soil, taking people as prisoners, making them slaves to “progress.” Knowing the earth held the answers, we raped her. We stole from her. We brutalized the planet, demanding she give us the way forward, and when she wouldn’t give us the answers we wanted, we tried to enslave her, too. Centuries later, we live in plastic cities built on the ashes of our forgotten ancestors’ altars to the earth.
RKA on Clothesline Productions

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Should I Pray For My Abuser? Reconciling Feminism and Forgiveness

Paolo Freire writes, “In order for [the struggle for humanization] to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn oppressors of the oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity of both.”
RKA on Feminspire

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Dear Me: A Thank You Note To My Younger Self

I need you to know it’s okay to cry. Let it go, girl. Sob all over the world’s blueprints for you—they’re worthless, anyway. You don’t need other peoples’ plans. Let pain be your architect. The design for where I stand today is written in our deepest despair, forged on what you see as failure and I know now as fortitude. Don’t punish ourself for feeling, for fearing, for fretting: it is in these days of darkness that we will learn how to light our own fire. This skill will serve us for the rest of our days together and soon, you will see, we will teach others to do the same.
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What’s Your (He)artwork? A 10-Day Action Diary For Awesomepreneurs

On December 3rd, I’ll be launching the very first Awesomepreneur eBook: What’s My (He)artwork? A 10-Day Action Diary For Awesomepreneurs. Discover, deepen, and celebrate your heart’s work: sign up to be the first to read it!

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My Love/Hate Relationship With Positive Psychology

Yes, I am a strengths ambassador. Yes, I believe like attracts like. Yes, I am on-my-knees, crazy in love with positive psychology. (And, yes, I still hate The Secret.)
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Remember when Rhonda Byrne “discovered” The Secret and everyone and their mom started parroting the insane notion that, with just a few affirmations a day, one would eventually wake up to a Maserati in their driveway*? Yeah, it’s no secret that I called bullshit on Byrne’s dirty lil’ bestseller from Day One.

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