After 5 months of brain fog, malaise, and unease, I am BACK BABY!
And this time, I have the energy of the gawds.
In late February, I started to feel like my old self again. I was hesitant to make it official by announcing my return to the normal world, so I waited a few weeks.
But this ain’t a fluke.
I am Krissy 10.0—ready to slay, ready to light a fire under your ass, ready to get shit done.
I’d like to give a shoutout to my bodyworker Dr. Scott Winkler for helping me release a lot of stored-up energy and tension in my body. And kudos to myself for trusting the process of listening to my body and moving through the sludge one day at a time.
Seriously folks, I haven’t had this much energy or felt this relaxed in my body for many, many years.
What does one do with ALL this energy?
Well, I’m funneling a lot of my revitalization into activism now.
In fact, I’ve launched a new Activism page.
I am one fired-up bitch.
Begging you to—please—Act Now.
The ordinary American needs an overhaul when it comes to their beliefs about what activism looks like. We’re not in a position to let “the activists” do all the heavy lifting anymore.
Every single one of us needs to play a part.
And it only takes one small action step, one at a time.
The collective helplessness is dangerous. We cannot let ourselves fall into unchecked despair and debilitating worry. I started seeing it happening to the people around me.
And I get it. We’re in unprecedented troubling times.
Which is why getting involved is now mandatory. It’s good not just for the country (and the entire world), it’s also good for you. It builds momentum. It counteracts your felt sense of helplessness. And it’s a hella better way to spend your time than endlessly news scrolling.
In the words of Civil Rights Activist John Lewis, we need more “GOOD TROUBLE.”
John Lewis was from my home state Alabama. He was driven to join the Civil Rights movement at the time of the Rosa parks bus boycott.
As a little girl, I grew up in a historic neighborhood in Montgomery, AL. The man living across the street from my childhood home was the bus driver from the Rosa Parks incident that sparked the bus boycott.
I have a surreal connection to a historic, world-changing era. But I’ll be the first one to raise my hand to say that I’ve lost touch with my civic duty and activism. I can’t claim to have been an activist in my past. I’ve always cared about the health of my country and the rights of my fellow citizens. I follow major political stories, always vote, and I majored in society, politics, and culture in my university days.
But an “activist”? No, unfortunately not.
John Lewis was willing to be arrested for his nonviolent work.
I’m not suggesting that you need to be willing to go that far. But I am saying that we must get creative and figure out how to make our own version of good trouble right now.
I am learning how to be a practical, everyday activist.
And I believe with all of my heart that you can too.
What are you waiting for? Let’s ACT NOW.