Feel Better. Do Better.

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Martin Luther King Mother Teresa Grandmomma Ruth who was always the first one to volunteer for the church coat drive...</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>They taught you how to give</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How to make an impact and how to ignore your inner needs until you're on the verge of a literal breakdown.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Here's the thing it's not that anyone set out to teach you that making a difference means having to fall on your own sword it's just that there hasn't been much evidence that it was possible for it to look any other way. Until now.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Whether you've been in the fight against oppression for decades or are new to taking action now is the moment where you become an example of widespread impact while still managing to live a happy and fully satisfying life filled with the things and people you love.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Would you like to know how?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In Feel Better. Do Better. author and editor Dr. Deb Shine Valentine and eight colleagues offer a beginners' guide to walking on a path that Deb calls thriving for equity. It's one that emerged out of her failure to suffer enough to make the world a measurably better place and her desperate need to find a way to enjoy life enough to want to keep waking up in the morning. Along the way she found some amazing fellow travelers who shared a commitment dismantling (or dissolving) the white-supremacist-capitalist-patriarchy using stealth tactics like exercising self-compassion cultivating pleasure and learning in community.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Unlike many books in this genre that gloss over the different experiences and challenges that face People of Color and White people on the journey towards joy and justice Feel Better. Do Better. was written with that messy complexity right at the center.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Each chapter includes:</span></p><p><br></p><ul><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An invitation from Deb (a White cis-gender life and leadership coach educator blogger and DEIJ consultant) to consider a new way to move forward towards both a more just world and your own delight in the life you're living. Not one or the other.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An essay by a BIPOC (Black Indigenous Person of Color/Culture) author that further illuminates this path and expands possibilities.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Resources for your journey - practices to try books and podcasts to check out other ways to find support.</span></li></ul><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>You can feel better and still be a good person. Come with us. We're right here waiting for you.</span></p><p><br></p>