LIVE as an act of resistance

This site is an act of personal defiance against the dark.

Eco-grief. Climate anxiety. Headline stress. Collective trauma. Outrage fatigue. POLYCRISIS. 

How many terms have you seen describing the pain of these days? How many of these are you experiencing? 

It’s hard to stay vertical when all the supports we lean on – the natural world, shared cultural values, the social safety net – are under attack. 

It’s no wonder so many of us are exhausted, asking How do I keep going? How can I push forward, fighting the dragging weight of personal pain, fear, not-enoughness?

And yet, what else can we do but wake up, make ready, and return to the fray. Tap into some obstinate core that does whatever must be done to continue functioning, day to day.

But we cannot survive by ignoring the pain of the world, numbing out the pain of our souls.

Living a doomscrolling half-life yields nothing but more fatigue, more outrage, more buried grief.

To be conscious, fully human, caring for ourselves and others, involves a choice: to LIVE, dammit. 

Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl wrote:

“Ultimately (we) should not ask what the meaning of Life is,
but rather must recognize that it is (we) who are asked.
In a word, each is questioned by Life, and we can only answer to Life
by answering for our own life.”

This is the watershed: moving from despair to strategy. 

Gathering our allies: friends, family, therapists, healers…

Building and stocking our psychological toolbox…

Connecting with the living natural world…

Discovering our spiritual foundation…

Persevering. Holding on through each storm, and finding a new tool, new truth, new practice afterward. 

Michael Meade wrote:

“Something deep in the human soul awakens as things fall apart.
Something in the soul knows that everything in this world can become lost.
And something in the soul knows how to survive periods of devastation, disorientation, and loss.”

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That’s where LIVEdammit comes in.

If you have refused to give up, even in the face of forces that would extinguish you – this is a place for you.

Here, you’ll find inspiration, tools, and practices to help you carry on. Stories from others who faced the impossible and came through – not by hardening or becoming less human, but by making healthy vulnerability and wise compassion their strength.

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Start with your thinking.

Much of the hatred, violence, and greed around us is driven by distorted thinking and twisted beliefs dressed up as truth. Age-old, unexamined assumptions and generational traumas passed on as reality.

And those same distortions creep into our own minds. Messages from media, family, culture, and trauma can plant and reinforce thinking traps:

I’m not enough.
Things will never change.
If I’d only —— things would be different.
I’m alone.

To reclaim our future, we have to start by reclaiming our minds.

Roadmap to Re-Aliving is a free, 5-day email course to help you spot and break free from five of the most common, most spirit-crushing thinking traps.

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You don’t have to do this alone.

Choose to LIVE, dammit.

Take the first step now.

👉 [Subscribe to the free Roadmap to Re-Aliving course]

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Image: “From this moment despair ends and tactics begin” Stenciled mural at the Marble Arch in London by Banksy, quoting The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem to mark the 2019 Extinction Rebellion protests. CC-by-SA-4.0