WE'RE NOT GOING BACK

The only thing we should not do is do nothing.

It's a FEW against MILLIONS of us... The time to do ANYthing and EVERYthing we can, no matter how small, is NOW!! 1. Do NOT OBEY in advance, they're counting on that 2. Stay focused. This huge sh*tshow is meant to paralyze us. 3. Do NOT COMPLY w/o resisting, make it hard to FW 4. SPEAK OUT, silence is acceptance 5. SHOW you can be COUNTED on / a FAFO attitude 6. Seek information and SHARE it with everyone 7. Undocumented or not, KNOW & EXERCISE your rights 8. Resist: prepare to act and STOP/SLOW them down 9. Organize, plan, be ready to take RESISTANT action 10. Be team up with like-minded people, Bluesky… we’re stronger together Act as if we were invincible... because we ARE. We WILL win this. We WILL win!! "When someone SHOWS you who they are, believe them the FIRST time." - Maya Angelou It's time to show them who WE are. WATCH this message by Alexandria Ocacio-Cortez https://www.instagram.com/reel/DForuR_R7AA/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== IMPORTANT: If you are in an abusive relationship and you don’t feel safe, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline! National Domestic Violence Hotline Hours: 24/7. Languages: English, Spanish and 200+ through interpretation service 800-799-7233 OR text START to 88788 ⁠Learn more⁠ here LET’S CONNECT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/addie.scharff INSTAGRAM: @we.are.not.goingback ⁠ we.are.not.goingback

Let us be mindful of our… ** News sources, and how much we consume… refocus now and then on what matters most ** At any given time there’s chaos in the world, executive orders can/are being sign into being ** What’s for SHOW/INTIMIDATION (deportations in Military planes), and what is actually taking effect? ** Let not our peace be stolen… while STLL letting our voices be heard… because silence is acceptance ** Budgets being cut, FDIC being done away with, DEI being cancelled… most, if not all of these, are being challenged by lawsuits having been filed. ** Read/Share information on anything that matters to you, your loved ones, and your community. ** Stay loud, make as much noise as possible!! IMPORTANT: If you are in an abusive relationship and you don’t feel safe, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline! National Domestic Violence Hotline Hours: 24/7. Languages: English, Spanish and 200+ through interpretation service 800-799-7233 OR text START to 88788 ⁠Learn more⁠ here LET’S CONNECT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! INSTAGRAM: @we.are.not.goingback ⁠ we.are.not.goingback

These are not so much “show notes” per se, but just MY bullet points, which I use to try and stay on track as I speak. ** Take it one day at time… are you ok RIGHT NOW? ** Do NOT obey/submit in advance. ** Stand up for those who cannot… if we (those who can withstand the winds) do not stand up, what does that make us?? ** Support/back those (back the blue) who risk everything to protect us… ** Silence is ACCEPTANCE ** Why risk it all… we’re going to die eventually, I would rather die for a good cause than just die. ** Even if it’s “not you” right now… one day it will be you/us ** Know your rights, make it HARD to be harassed… arrest me, jail me, for doing nothing… SUE THEM!! ** If we give in, we empower them over us… IMPORTANT: If you are in an abusive relationship and you don’t feel safe, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline! National Domestic Violence Hotline Hours: 24/7. Languages: English, Spanish and 200+ through interpretation service 800-799-7233 OR text START to 88788 ⁠Learn more⁠ here LET’S CONNECT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! INSTAGRAM: @we.are.not.goingback ⁠ we.are.not.goingback

Let's plan this New Year, 6 MONTHS at time, and keep the whole thing going for the NEXT 4 years!! IMPORTANT: If you are in an abusive relationship and you don’t feel safe, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline! National Domestic Violence Hotline Hours: 24/7. Languages: English, Spanish and 200+ through interpretation service 800-799-7233 OR text START to 88788 ⁠Learn more⁠ here LET’S CONNECT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! INSTAGRAM: @we.are.not.goingback ⁠ we.are.not.goingback

Here’s to taking the best of 2024 into 2025 and making even better memories right from the start!! Wishing you a Happy and Prosperous New Year!!    IMPORTANT: If you are in an abusive relationship and you don’t feel safe, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline! National Domestic Violence Hotline Hours: 24/7. Languages: English, Spanish and 200+ through interpretation service  800-799-7233 OR text START to 88788 ⁠Learn more HERE⁠   LET’S CONNECT ON SOCIAL MEDIA!  INSTAGRAM: @women.rising.together ⁠https://www.instagram.com/women.rising.together/⁠

Recent events have gotten me thinking more about the meaning of neutrality than I normally would.   It’s so easy for our brain to spiral into darkness, fear, sadness or other unpleasant emotions.   So, how do we bring it back to a neutral zone as soon as possible (if we’re ready) so we can do life?   One thing I know for sure is… life will always throw us curveballs from time to time… be it sickness or troubles of all sorts.   Here are some things I find helpful: * It’s ok to be/feel negative emotions… fighting them too much may be the worse things we can do. * It’s always been this way * It’ll always be this way… more or less * Refocus on all the beauty and good in your life * Sometimes we have it wrong… our imagination at its best (like maybe the next four years won’t be as bad as many of us think)       IMPORTANT: If you are in an abusive relationship and you don’t feel safe, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline! National Domestic Violence Hotline Hours: 24/7. Languages: English, Spanish and 200+ through interpretation service  800-799-7233 OR text START to 88788 ⁠Learn more⁠ here   LET’S CONNECT ON SOCIAL MEDIA!   INSTAGRAM: @women.rising.together ⁠https://www.instagram.com/women.rising.together/⁠

I’m seeing, and feeling, more fragility in the last couple of weeks than I have in quite a while… due to the election results… but it’s mostly due to where our focus is.   Is ignorance bliss?   If ignorance is bliss, do you remember a time in your life when you suffered greatly, only to look back now and ask yourself… “what the heck was I thinking?”.   During the depression not everyone was poor… who prospered? During the pandemic not everyone was lonely… why were some people not lonely?   Who is sad/mad/afraid/ now? … Who is happy/joyful/excited with the election results?   What to do in the next 4 years (or in any difficult time really that’s outside of our control) ** Are we ok right now? Can we breathe, eat, see, hear, have a roof over our head, are we safe? ** Are our loved ones safe, healthy, fed?   ** Are others in our same situation experiencing a different result?  If so, why?   What can we do to remain safe, and to not let our situation make things worse?   How can we get to the other side having used this hardship to improve ourselves?   Let’s make hard times count for some good!   IMPORTANT: If you are in an abusive relationship and you don’t feel safe, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline! National Domestic Violence Hotline Hours: 24/7. Languages: English, Spanish and 200+ through interpretation service  800-799-7233 OR text START to 88788 ⁠Learn more⁠ here   LET’S CONNECT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! INSTAGRAM: @women.rising.together ⁠https://www.instagram.com/women.rising.together/⁠

This 2024 election more than any other I can remember, has been the most shocking and divisive, not just across party lines, but within families across our nation! Marginalized communities are being targeted with things like mass deportations. Threats have been made about prosecuting political “enemies” Women are facing/experiencing the erasing/turning back women’s rights   Informational resources shared: Documentaries: BAD Faith, Tubi  - how easily we can sometimes be manipulated, how, and by whom. 13th, Netflix – having to do with slavery and how African Americans have been treated.   Podcast that may save your sanity: Legal AF podcast on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch/id1580828595   *** Save all your podcast by adding them to PodcastAddict. At the top right corner press the PLUS (+) sign and it will take you to where you can past your link (RSS) and save it.   Books: The Truths We Hold, by Kamala Harris Oath and Honor, by Liz Cheney Blowback, by Miles Taylor Warning, by Anonymous aka Miles Taylor   I didn’t mention this book but I’m listening and now it’s very good: How to Stand Up to a Dictator, by Maria Ressa   IMPORTANT: If you are in an abusive relationship and you don’t feel safe, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline! National Domestic Violence Hotline Hours: 24/7. Languages: English, Spanish and 200+ through interpretation service  800-799-7233 OR text START to 88788 ⁠Learn more⁠ here   LET’S CONNECT ON SOCIAL MEDIA!   INSTAGRAM: @women.rising.together ⁠https://www.instagram.com/women.rising.together/⁠

If we look at our life… be it relationships, working conditions or income, our baseline may be keeping us safe, but also just comfortable enough to keep us from growing to a greater version of ourselves. IMPORTANT: If you are in an abusive relationship and you don’t feel safe, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline! National Domestic Violence Hotline Hours: 24/7. Languages: English, Spanish and 200+ through interpretation service  800-799-7233 OR text START to 88788 ⁠⁠Learn more⁠⁠ here   LET’S CONNECT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! INSTAGRAM: @women.rising.together ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/women.rising.together/⁠⁠   PRIVATE FREE FACEBOOK COMMUNITY: WomenRisingTogether2021 (link below)  ⁠⁠Women Rising Together | Facebook⁠⁠

The following statement gave me cause for deep contemplation… “We hurt our own feelings by thinking we mean more to people than we really do.”   I agree up to the ‘thinking’ part, but not on the ‘mean more’ part… that part we actually do not know, and will never know.   Other related Podcast Episode(s): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-90-self-imposed-misery/id1597656935?i=1000624439287   IMPORTANT: If you are in an abusive relationship and you don’t feel safe, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline! National Domestic Violence Hotline Hours: 24/7. Languages: English, Spanish and 200+ through interpretation service  800-799-7233 OR text START to 88788 ⁠Learn more⁠ here   LET’S CONNECT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! INSTAGRAM: @women.rising.together ⁠https://www.instagram.com/women.rising.together/⁠   PRIVATE FREE FACEBOOK COMMUNITY: WomenRisingTogether2021 (link below)  ⁠Women Rising Together | Facebook⁠

There are TWO kinds of prophesies… Self-fulfilling, and SELF (no dash, meaning YOU) fulfilling prophesy. Instead of being swept into a prophesy you want no part of, create your own freakin’ prophesy! IMPORTANT: If you are in an abusive relationship and you don’t feel safe, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline! National Domestic Violence Hotline Hours: 24/7. Languages: English, Spanish and 200+ through interpretation service  800-799-7233 OR text START to 88788 ⁠Learn more⁠ here LET’S CONNECT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! INSTAGRAM: @women.rising.together ⁠https://www.instagram.com/women.rising.together/⁠   PRIVATE & FREE FACEBOOK COMMUNITY: WomenRisingTogether2021 (link below)   ⁠Women Rising Together | Facebook⁠  

Where do emotions/feelings come from?  We often think it’s from what’s happening around us… circumstances (others/jerks, traffic, government, poverty, etc). Enjoy this emotions audit, I think you will find it very useful!! IMPORTANT: If you are in an abusive relationship and you don’t feel safe, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline! National Domestic Violence Hotline Hours: 24/7. Languages: English, Spanish and 200+ through interpretation service  800-799-7233 OR text START to 88788 ⁠Learn more⁠ here   LET’S CONNECT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! INSTAGRAM: @women.rising.together ⁠https://www.instagram.com/women.rising.together/⁠ PRIVATE & FREE FACEBOOK COMMUNITY: WomenRisingTogether2021 (link below)  ⁠ Women Rising Together | Facebook⁠

When is “enough” enough? For me it’s… ALWAYS, and NEVER! Sometimes for me it is enough not to have to leave the comfort of my home to earn money to meet my basic needs. Other times… let’s talk about why "enough" is not always enough. IMPORTANT: If you are in an abusive relationship and you don’t feel safe, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline! National Domestic Violence Hotline Hours: 24/7. Languages: English, Spanish and 200+ through interpretation service  800-799-7233 OR text START to 88788 ⁠Learn more⁠ here   LET’S CONNECT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! INSTAGRAM: @women.rising.together ⁠https://www.instagram.com/women.rising.together/⁠ PRIVATE & FREE FACEBOOK COMMUNITY: WomenRisingTogether2021 (link below) ⁠Women Rising Together | Facebook⁠

When we lose control of our emotions, we give our power away to another person, or a circumstance! Being able to manage our temper is a sign of a good leader, a kind person, a person that can be trusted. Losing our cool is a sign of having low self-esteem, where we take things personally, to our own detriment, and make others miserable! Being able to control our emotions, especially negative ones, is good for everyone! Let’s practice and model calmness, and let’s not surrender our personal power to anyone or anything.   IMPORTANT: If you are in an abusive relationship and you don’t feel safe, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline! National Domestic Violence Hotline Hours: 24/7. Languages: English, Spanish and 200+ through interpretation service  800-799-7233 OR text START to 88788 ⁠Learn more⁠ here   LET’S CONNECT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! INSTAGRAM: @women.rising.together ⁠https://www.instagram.com/women.rising.together/⁠ PRIVATE & FREE FACEBOOK COMMUNITY: WomenRisingTogether2021 (link below)   ⁠Women Rising Together | Facebook⁠

Being aware of the contrast difference between us, can help us see and appreciate not being something we don’t like to see in the world. IMPORTANT: If you are in an abusive relationship and you don’t feel safe, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline! National Domestic Violence Hotline Hours: 24/7. Languages: English, Spanish and 200+ through interpretation service  800-799-7233 OR text START to 88788 ⁠Learn more⁠ here   LET’S CONNECT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! INSTAGRAM: @women.rising.together ⁠https://www.instagram.com/women.rising.together/⁠   PRIVATE & FREE FACEBOOK COMMUNITY: WomenRisingTogether2021 (link below)  ⁠ Women Rising Together | Facebook⁠

[Stay to the end for a funny Ep 113: The Fires We Burn edit/remix by my husband!] Growth and evolution are humanity’s nature, an innate desire… we can count on that forever. How do I know if I want to grow & evolve? If you feel stagnant, bored, sad, wish to do things you see others do but you think you can’t do. How do I know  what my purpose is? We humans have MANY purposes at different phases of life.  We have seasons… birth, teen, wife, mom, adult, a senior, etc.  These are some clues. We have different starting and ending points to our seasons as well. Finding what our purpose(s) is for US… You will feel it… unfulfillment, feeling there should be more to life, etc. Follow your desires, search what your soul is calling you to do, to experience, to share, to leave behind!!   IMPORTANT: If you are in an abusive relationship and you don’t feel safe, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline! National Domestic Violence Hotline Hours: 24/7. Languages: English, Spanish and 200+ through interpretation service  800-799-7233 OR text START to 88788 Learn more here   Let’s connect on social media! INSTAGRAM: @women.rising.together https://www.instagram.com/women.rising.together/ PRIVATE & FREE FACEBOOK COMMUNITY: WomenRisingTogether2021 (link below) Women Rising Together | Facebook

First, the “how” of unlocking the key to anything we want in life keeps being revealed to us over and over, but we keep missing the opportunity to grab it! You/we all have ideas that pop up as we go about our everyday lives, all of us do… but what do most of us do with them? NOT a thing! We also miss many ideas that are floating around everywhere… example: how to pay off your mortgage, improve our marriage, etc. Also: You ever talk to someone and mention an idea?? that you think they would benefit from and they say something, “Oh, yes” and it appears as though they already know it, but are not doing anything about it? WE ALL do that.  Earl Nightingale referred to it as “know-it-alls with unpaid debts and empty bank accounts”! So: Let’s put our thinking & listening caps on and be on the lookout, not for ideas/breakthroughs and being ready to receive them… the ideas WILL come! BE ready for your brain to say NO/disregard the idea as a good one… it will come up with a list of why an idea is not good. Ideas are always coming (from outside & INSIDE of us), but willing to seize them/say yes! Listen to the part on my video on investing in Real Estate and paying off your mortgage. Not all ideas will be good, but we won’t know unless we try them (52/year). Always have FUN. LOVING something is a win/win (fashion, shopping, home organizing, home decor, garden design), and you can do it all or most of it ONLINE! HUGE change may not come overnight, but it will come… it’s like working out and progress is not visible right away. Things will get EASIER. Use your phone’s NOTEs app. I’m doing it, I’m going… even if it’s a snail’s pace, but I’m going!  Are you coming?  Let’s go!!!     IMPORTANT: If you are in an abusive relationship and you don’t feel safe, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline! National Domestic Violence Hotline Hours: 24/7. Languages: English, Spanish and 200+ through interpretation service  800-799-7233 OR text START to 88788 ⁠Learn more⁠ here   Let’s connect on social media! INSTAGRAM: @women.rising.together ⁠https://www.instagram.com/women.rising.together/⁠ PRIVATE & FREE FACEBOOK COMMUNITY: WomenRisingTogether2021 (link below) ⁠Women Rising Together | Facebook⁠

We’ve all seen (and been) people who believe that our life’s results are outside of our control. My hope is that, if you are thinking that now, from now on you never again believe that your destiny is in someone else’s hands and not your own. No one is in charge of us and our lives… Not our work boss Not our government Not our husband Not our parents, after 18 We do not ever HAVE to do anything if don’t want to… not even a job, or that job! There’s power in knowing this! I decide what work to do, who I marry, or NOT marry. If I don’t like the work I do I can acquire a new skill and get a new job. If I don’t like how little money I make, I can increase the quality of the value I can provide and get paid more for that value. Even at work I’m always my own boss, because I’m in charge of where I work, and what work I do… I AM IN CHARGE OF ME ALWAYS! My work boss is in charge of him/herself and his/her job, not me, that’s my job. So now knowing and remembering that you’re always in charge of all aspects of your life, how will you move forward? Will you stay WHERE you are and HOW you are, or are you going to choose a new direction, a new horizon? The whole point of this episode is to not stay stuck, by choice! So, let’s plan and let’s go! IMPORTANT: If you are in an abusive relationship and you don’t feel safe, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline! National Domestic Violence Hotline Hours: 24/7. Languages: English, Spanish and 200+ through interpretation service  800-799-7233 OR text START to 88788 ⁠Learn more⁠ here   Let’s connect on social media! INSTAGRAM: @women.rising.together ⁠https://www.instagram.com/women.rising.together/⁠ PRIVATE & FREE FACEBOOK COMMUNITY: WomenRisingTogether2021 (link below) ⁠Women Rising Together | Facebook

What’s the difference between real and self-imposed victimization? Our thoughts! In the movie Room, as little Jack reads the line “For you see, out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.” From the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, this girl’s thoughts changed in one instant, although she had been, and most importantly had believed she was a victim. Compare this to times in your life when you felt like a victim, and how you acted… it was something someone said or did, or something happened. What’s the difference between a victim and a victor?  The way we think. We see this in movies all the time, but we know that art imitates life. How can we retell our story in a way that we are victors, not victims? Even when (and especially when) we are also the villain. Things to consider if you’ve felt like a victim, a prisoner, when in fact the door was wide open: 1.     Own your part in having co-created your current state (bad choices, over eating, wrong guy, over spending) … feeling powerless! 2.     Decide to own your future journey from here on out 3.     Own when you don’t take action… don’t blame external circumstances 4.     Adapt (start) an attitude of “I got myself into this, I’ll get myself out it” 5.     Use your influence, your VISION (The Power of Vision Ep 97), your VOICE… take action and SPEAK your future into being. 6.     It’s ok to experience pain, but don’t allow it to become part of you, don’t carry it!  Travel LIGHT!! IMPORTANT: If you are in an abusive relationship and you don’t feel safe, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline! National Domestic Violence Hotline Hours: 24/7. Languages: English, Spanish and 200+ through interpretation service  800-799-7233 OR text START to 88788 ⁠Learn more⁠ here   Let’s connect on social media! INSTAGRAM: @women.rising.together ⁠https://www.instagram.com/women.rising.together/⁠ PRIVATE & FREE FACEBOOK COMMUNITY: WomenRisingTogether2021 (link below) ⁠Women Rising Together | Facebook⁠