3/3 Do you overthink every decision? Perhaps making the “wrong” or “sinful” choice once felt dangerous.
These patterns aren’t personality flaws. They’re trauma responses. Which one resonated with you the most?
2/3 Do you struggle to trust yourself?
You were taught not submitting and obeying authority was dangerous.
Do you have difficulty saying no? You learned saying no to authority was unsafe. Or worse, rebellious.
You left the church...
So why does guilt still control you?
If rest makes you feel selfish or lazy, you’re not alone. Religious trauma and authoritarianism may still have its hold on you.
Do you panic when you disappoint people? Keeping others happy uses to feel like safety. 1/3
The lyrical essay that took me a year to publish just came out in Eclectica today (ironically about resilience). It’s about estrangement and finding joy after grief all in the city of New Orleans www.eclectica.org/v30n2/k_john...
This Easter felt different. I think we all felt it.
Maybe it’s the constant news of injustice. Maybe it’s our own struggles.
But maybe the resurrection isn’t just Christ rising from the dead. Maybe it feels less like triumph and more like childbirth. open.substack.com/pub/katejohn...
This Holy Week, I’m thinking about Mary Magdalene, female leadership, and the voices we’re told can’t speak leading up to Easter. Here’s why it matters now.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the sacredness of voice, women as preachers, and the radicalness of Jesus elevating the voices of the oppressed. If that’s your vibe, I’ll be dropping a new post about it tomorrow. open.substack.com/pub/katejohn...
I didn’t think I was funny.
Then I decided to learn the craft.
This week, I got published in The Belladonna for the first time.
For those interested, you can read the piece here:
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I would love to see both of you with a wand
“The last tribute standing will win a 10% off coupon to the PB&J of the Month Club and an all-expenses-paid trip to Cleveland, Ohio (Blackout dates apply).” By @katejohnsonwrites.bsky.social
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Am I addicted to the Jersey pork roll at my local sandwich place? Yes. Will I stop? No. I can quit when I want!
So happy! My satire/humor piece about TSA and airports has just been published by @belladonnacomedy.bsky.social!
#writingcommunity #writesky #humorwriting #writersofbluesky
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The horrors in the news are many, but poetry gave me a place to channel it. Here’s how reading daily poetry improved my mental health and how you can get started too:
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On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
I’m so glad that you’re reporting on this ❤️. I’ve been trying to get an essay on this published for awhile. It’s so normalized but it’s so unjust I can’t believe more people aren’t talking about it.
Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.
This picture broke me, but the description of this kidnapping by a witness who says ICE referred to this precious child as “it” as they took him away fills me with an unspeakable, murderous rage.
Losing things is really good for my New Years step count goal.
My husband when he wakes me up this morning, “I’m going to ease you into this slowly…”
What the hell???
That is absolutely wild and horrifying. I wonder why such a concentration in that county in particular.
Everyone should read After Purity by @saramoslener.bsky.social. What a superb read. It reminds me of this recent article from Religion Dispatches but goes much deeper.
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People who call kids “bad” usually don’t know Fact One about child development. A lot—A LOT—of adults, despite their authority, want children to display more emotional maturity than they’ve ever modeled for them.
Amen! We need these kind of advocates for kids in the world.
She inspired me to finally start using moisturizer
Hi Alli,
I am actively working on a memoir that would fit your manuscript wishlist (Educated x Somebody’s Daughter). I have sample chapters, a proposal, and am building platform, but am the manuscript is still in progress. Do you prefer completed memoir or proposal after the initial query?
