LIVE as an act of resistance

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

There are days when the world feels like it’s unraveling: more outrage, more grief, more fear with every headline. It’s hard to stay vertical when democracy, truth, empathy, the natural world, all the supports we depend upon, 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 – day by day, we keep waking up, making ready, and returning to the fray, tuning in to the stubborn core that insists, despite everything, “I will not die even if they kill me.” *

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

We cannot be human and live in denial, pretending it’s not there. But to live fully, to care for ourselves and others, despite all the obstacles, all the temptations to numb out or despair, we must choose 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.”

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Step by step, we build our resources.

If we’re stubborn, determined, resourceful, and lucky…
If we’ve built a well-stocked psychological toolbox…
If we have family, friends, therapists, or healers with us…
If we can ground ourselves in the living natural world…
If we’ve established our spiritual foundation and allies…

We persevere.

And with each storm, we gain something: a new tool, a new truth, a new practice. Wisdom.

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]

* Giovanni Guareschi, The Little World of Don Camillo.