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Tending Your Life

Oct 25, 2019

What happens when your self-care practice stops working? What happens when self-care just isn’t enough anymore?

In this episode, I’m taking you behind the scenes of my early parenthood days and how I had to evolve my self-care into something bolder: self-advocacy. It’s easy to advocate for others; advocating for...


Oct 18, 2019

This episode wasn't on my original list for Season One. But I couldn't help it.

Once I had the brain-flash of doing an episode just for new or aspiring activists, I couldn't get it out of my head until I had gotten it recorded. This is for you. If you're a new activist or part of a new group. If you've been away from...


Oct 18, 2019

I'm so excited to share with you my interview with my husband, Dan Tennery-Spalding. Dan and I met through mutual activist friends almost twelve years ago and have been basically inseparable ever since.

Dan is a legal worker activist, computer programmer, bicycle/coffee/book aficionado, and my baby daddy (among...


Oct 11, 2019

In this episode, I'm talking about the tough and sometimes uncomfortable work of evolving your legacy. There are lots of ways we can approach this.

In my own life, it's meant getting sober. And it's meant interrogating my whiteness and settler-colonial background. This is ongoing work, and each of our work is...


Oct 4, 2019

This episode came from a question I received on Instagram, and is something I'm asked all the time:

How do we let go of our work at the end of the day?

When we do work that we care about, that has deep, personal meaning to us, it can be difficult to put separation between ourselves and our work. But this lack of...