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23 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
But also it's such good practice. Who doesn't hate the violence of "we need to talk" with zero context as to what? With an agenda, everyone knows what's going to be covered and can advocate for a time when they'll be appropriately resourced to have that conversation.
I also support the practice of adjourning relationship conversations to sleep, use the restroom, eat, cuddle, reestablish connection, etc. I will never see those marathon sessions where people talk and talk into exhaustion as generative.
I'm a big fan of people processing their own feelings individually before meeting to discuss a situation.
I'm also a big supporter of ending conversations that aren't going anywhere, or where people have become too activated to really dialogue.

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Sporadic 202-level reminder that just because something "feels right in your body" doesn't mean that it's good for you in the long-term. Smoking cigarettes felt right in my body for years.
As @itsmeardenleigh put it during our consent dialogues: "just because you choose it and fully, enthusiastically consent to it doesn't mean it's in your highest good."
Opening up dialogue with the body isn't just acting on impulses you can suddenly access. Discernment means learning to listen and working to understand your body and get a sense of the tradeoffs it's making.
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Sometimes, the actions we view as "getting safe" are strategies we developed at other junctures in life -- sometimes quite early on -- that no longer work for us and are part of how we got stuck repeating the same cycle over and over.
Sometimes to break the pattern and get out of a cycle, we have to try something different, something that feels a bit scary or upsetting or not-like-us.
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One of the things we discuss in transformative justice when confronting harm is how the community -- people and organizations both -- intentionally and unintentionally enabled the harm to occur and to continue.
"When we focus only on abusers, we individualize something that is often a community problem." -- @theleilaraven
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Today I took the first step on the long road to understanding, changing and doing repair for actions that contributed to harm in a process that was retraumatizing for one of the survivors involved. I share this here with the permission of the survivor.
I share it because I believe harm is a community matter, not only a personal matter. Even if the harm happens when we are trying to help, it is important to listen and take steps to understand, change where necessary, and repair.
But most importantly, I share this because writing a book about how to intervene in harm doesn't mean I am not capable of harm. We are all capable of harm and we are all responsible for addressing the harm we do.
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Mixed signals happen when we act out of alignment. I've been there -- people who avoid our own feelings are notorious for this. We don't realize we are the ones who create the push-pull dance of ambivalence.
I was talking to a good friend about this last night. She told me a man she was dating seemed surprised that women keep having feelings when he's clearly verbalized to them he's not emotionally available, never accounting for the way he acts toward them
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