Desireé B Stephens
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🌍 Founder, Make Shi(f)t Happen (B Corp) 💡 Liberation through decolonization, healing, & intentional communities 🖋 Writer, Liberation Education on Substack ✊ Educator | Counselor | Community Builder ✨ Dismantling systems of oppression
What if faith isn’t about believing harder, but about choosing who and what you refuse to abandon? Day 7: Imani Now live. open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...
Imani... Faith as What We Keep Choosing
a Practice of Staying
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Self-determination isn’t just political… it’s physiological. Real community allows you to breathe, speak, and arrive without armor. #SomaticTruth #SelfDetermination #CommunityHealing #KwanzaaPrinciples #decolonizedcommunity #Kwanzaa #desireebstephens open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...
Day Two of Kwanzaa: Kujichagulia (Self-Determination)
History, context, and the embodied work of naming ourselves
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Dormant is not dead... it’s preparation. December is the Season of Self, the month where you stop performing and finally meet the truth inside you. open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...
DECEMBER EDITORIAL CALENDAR
Season of Self: Rewriting the Story of You
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The holidays are mirrors. And your body knows the truth before you do. open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...
The Holidays Are Mirrors: What This Season Shows Us
Who's at your table?
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Before supremacy culture became a system, it was a survival strategy you never consented to. Today, we name each pillar as a somatic survival pattern. open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...
The 15 Pillars of Supremacy Culture as Nervous System Patterning
Liberation Lessons: Actionable Advice for Radical Change A Weekly Paid Subscriber Bonus
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There is a version of you that has been on guard your entire life — waiting for the tone to change, for the withdrawal, for the moment the ground shifts under your feet. desireebstephens.substack.com/p/come-insid...
Come Inside. You’re Safe to Sit Down Here.
Season of Descent: We slow down to listen
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Did you know that the patriarchy harms men first and white supremacy hurts white people first?? 🤯 Read or watch my conversation with @desireebstephens.substack.com to find out how! amyhoggart.substack.com/p/the-person...
The personal politics of Desireé B Stephens, educator and counsellor
White supremacy harms white-bodied people because there is no privilege in having no community
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We’ve been taught to fear the fall. To mistake slowing down for failure. But liberation lives in the descent — in the moment we stop performing control and start practicing trust. ✨ New Lesson: Learning to Trust the Fall Read + Reflect ↓ open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...
Descent as Devotion: Reclaiming Endings as Sacred
Liberation Lessons: Actionable Advice for Radical Change A Weekly Paid Subscriber Bonus
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