Essays by Kelly Wendorf

A Hard Look at What America Really Wants

The Supreme Court’s maneuver to overturn Roe v. Wade is not about saving the lives of babies, or preserving family values, or upholding Christian moral beliefs. If it were, then its architects would be staunch advocates of a plethora of pro-infant, pro-mother, pro-family and pro-child initiatives. They would be ensuring that all these unborn lives would not only be saved but have a safe environment in which to thrive. 

But they aren’t. 

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Unbullied

May we together create a world that is unbullied—a world where we no longer normalize internal unkindness and belligerence. Where are hearts are free to experience joy, where our minds are at last emancipated from tyranny. 

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Do It Now

I believe all humans are outrageously creative. And every one of us needs to learn to be ok in the discomfort of resistance so that our genius can emerge. We need to be willing to engage in sacred warfare each and every day.

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Fragile

I’m not sure who fired the first shot – nature or humanity. But somewhere long ago a great rift happened between humans and nature.

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What’s OK, What’s Not OK

Take some time this week and do an inventory. Let your body tell you what feels ok, what feels not ok. You’ll know the ‘not ok’s’ by how it feels, like size-four jeans on a voluptuous and sexy size-twelve body. You’ve grown, in a good way, and your body knows it

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Go Ahead and Cry

When we numb out or rush past grief, we also limit our capacity for joy and presence. You can’t selectively numb out one emotion, without compromising your ability to feel another. 

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The Surprising Antidote to Exhaustion

If the pandemic has done anything to me, it has stripped me of what I thought was real and important. It has removed any last drop of energy that I might use to effort myself into something other than my true authentic self. It has robbed me of any emotional reserves to endure ‘normal life’ any longer. If anything, the pandemic has laid me bare.

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Wait, Wait! We’ve Started Out on the Wrong Foot

When people ask me, ‘What’s the point?’, I say to them, ‘this is the point’. To find our way back home within the greater order of things. This is why I remain somewhat hopeful in these dark times, because when I hang out in the good company of nature—feel its welcome—I feel my connection to an infinite capacity of heart. It is then I know a new possibility for us.

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The Care and Feeding of Empaths

The world needs you and your empathic gifts. But it needs you to be clear, healthy, balanced, sane and happy. Treat yourself like the unicorn that you are and learn how to take care of yourself in the unique ways your body, mind, and heart need.

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Where to Stand As the World Goes Insane

Here’s the thing—we cannot solve the distortion within the distortion itself. We cannot heal the polarization in our communities by asserting ‘facts’ within the untruth of separation.

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The Monsters We Create

Then we must turn our attention towards creating conditions for everyone to thrive. We must set up policies, structures, and institutions that ensure the love, safety, and belonging of all humans.

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What is a Flying Lead Change?

On a hot, humid afternoon, a small dog-like creature nibbles on fruit suspended above a lush fern-covered ground. The thick jungle forest is bursting with sound, as this is a time when mammal life explodes with innovative evolutionary options.

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Calling Them In

Calling in—what does that mean exactly? For me, it’s an internal posture of bringing someone towards what I know is good and right and true.

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