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Life hack: There is a free app for android and Apple called the feeling wheel app. Great to use with self and others to identify your experienced emotions not only to communicate them better but become more emotionally aware and intuned with self.

This is what community care looks like👏🏾 At BEAM we have a community care tool that can be used to stay in the know about the needs of our community members so that we can better look after ourselves🫂 For more tools like this, visit beam.community/community-care…✨

we(me and a couple friends) run a free monthly creative writing workshop. as facilitators we put together a zine with some of the guiding principles and a number of new poems by each of us. holla to get you one, or three.

"Wounded child no surviving family" (WCNSF) was a new acronym coined almost a year ago by healthcare workers in Gaza to describe one of the most horrific recurrences in the ongoing genoc¡de against Palestinians.

Passed my LCSW exam this morning 🥳 on the first try at that

I hate how therapy speak gave us the whole “I don’t owe anyone anything” framework because the literal opposite is true I owe so many people so much love and community and solidarity and friendship and accountability wyd do you mean

Warm lines that DON’T call the police.

If you’re enraged about Marcellus Williams (you absolutely should be), you need to make sure that you’re viewing this violent, racist injustice, not as an isolated incident, but as part of pattern of systemic violence and racism.

NEW: Chicago's 911 mental health response teams no longer include police. The CARE teams — with no arrests made in 1,500 runs — first included CPD officers & CFD paramedics, but now only use emergency & behavioral health workers trained by the public health department. Full:

Just got off the phone with a visually impaired older Black woman and helped her identify her canned goods so she could correctly label them 🥹. If you’re looking for an easy way to help people, please download the Be my Eyes app ♥️. Kindness is free.

covidtests.gov is live again to order 4 free covid tests per household

Please don't forget the people and its flowers.

This is why not having trees or even parks in areas that are predominantly Black or brown is environmental racism. Not only are the areas usually hotter they also flood more often. Not to mention the disproportionate affects of this trickles down into medical n housing expenses

Sending extra love to the therapists, the healers, and anyone who have to hold space for others today as you deal with your own range emotions.

You’re going to see a lot of people talk about community and I want to remind you that community doesn’t mean big or large, it means people who are intentionally invested in your well-being. Your friend group of two or three people is also a community.

To any intern or beginning therapist/social worker: Never forget that therapeutic rapport, active listening, validation and your authentic self is some of the strongest interventions in your work. Holding space is more than enough sometimes

I PASSED MY LICENSING EXAM YALL!!! Fully LICENSED CLINICAL MASTER SOCIAL WORKER! 🤩🤩🥳🥳🥳 The proctor (a Black woman) hyped me up because she could see the shock on my face 😂

happy Social Work month!!🎉🎊

Community is the solution to a lot. Capitalism hates community, abusers hate community. Talking about what you’re going through with your people is not only radical but essential for survival.