Here is a guided practice for when you hate everything in America: 2025 but need to stay alive and function anyway.
Please begin by sitting however the hell you want. Slouch. Sprawl. Fetal position. Lying on your kitchen floor. Doesn’t matter. You showed up, bless you for that.
Take a deep breath in.
Let your shoulders rise with the weight of everything you’ve been holding in.
Exhale audibly. Like a sigh. Like a growl. Like you’re expelling toxic air from your very soul.
(Repeat 2 more times.)
Now say it with your chest (or inside your head if needed):
“I hate that this man still has power.”
Breathe in.
“I hate that some people basically worship someone they don’t fact check.“
Breathe out.
“I hate that it makes me feel this powerless.”
Let your jaw unclench. (You probably didn’t even notice it was locked up.)
Let your belly soften.
Let your confusion be holy for a moment.
You don’t need to be chill about fascism.
You don’t need to be okay with injustice.
You don’t need to forgive or forget.
Take a slow breath in…
Hold it at the top.
This is the pressure.
This is the stuck feeling.
Now exhale like a slow leak in a tire.
You are not overreacting.
You are not crazy.
You are not alone.
Imagine your breath like smoke from a fire that hasn’t gone out.
It stings, it burns, but it signals: “I’m still here.”
Inhale:
I breathe for the trans kids, the immigrants, the hungry, the silenced, the scared.
Exhale:
I release what I can’t control.. but I do not forget.
Inhale:
Even now, I am choosing to keep breathing.
Exhale:
Even now, I am choosing not to look away. Keep going!
One more breath: deep and deliberate.
Because that’s what they don’t want:
They don’t want you breathing, feeling, noticing, speaking, resisting. The people in power in America right now want you to be a money-spending exhausted and confused zombie.
So breathe in with feeling.
Breathe out with clarity.
You don’t have to be Zen.
You just have to be real.
And real is what you are.
Thank you for sharing a moment with me!- Clotele
Remember that in this day and age, purely existing is a form of rebellion. What you buy and what you do on a small scale matter, so watch who and what you are giving your money and time to.
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Resources Analyzing The News and Trump’s Impact on American Stability
If you want factual info on Donald Trump to learn more for yourself, click here for a BASIC wikipedia listing all his executive orders thus far.
OR the actual goverment website and records of his presidency thus far is here. You tell me, do you agree with them all? Do your research on things please, don’t expect a title to tell you the full truth. Comparing and contrasting information is VITAL to seeing the truth of our times. Here are a few helpful websites.
The Trust Project is dedicated to helping you discern what news is trustworthy.
Open Secrets is dedicated to tracking money in U.S. politics and the effect on policy.
This one is biased as well to a a degree and I can’t find the OG post, so let me know if you know the poster, but this is a Google Doc listing all the ways Trump has abused his presidential power.
Sites from other countries, like the BBC are particularly helpful in seeing different perspectives as well!
Lastly: let me know if there are websites or things you have found helpful and factual and I’ll add them to this list! Thank you for reading and if you liked this, please visit my website to subscribe and see more.
