Audre Lorde is giving us pause 🧘🏾♀️
A lil micro hit See, Hear, Feel meditation guided by poetry that empowers liberation and is steeped in intersectional feminism.
highlights the importance of slowing down, embodiment, and recognizing opportunities for contemplative practice in creative expressions like Audre has offered us.
🫶🏾✊🏽🌞💜
Meghan Stewart
Mindfulness Coaching to Help You Claim Your Truth, Own Your Power and Live Intentionally
It's about time! 🤣
Audre Lorde is getting a well deserved shout out in my work...
Yes, Audrey Lorde, an incredible poet and abolitionist within intersectional feminism movements, has absolutely informed my work in Contemplative Justice.
I'm not at my thesis yet, but when I get there... Don't be surprised if her work shows up 😏
Enjoy! 💜
03/22/2026
Romance is everywhere 🌹
To the friendships that value intimacy, romanticize them 💜
That's it. That's the post. Xo
.roque 🤗 thank you
02/23/2026
In case you missed it...
Thank you for the way you consistently hold space for everyone and everything that arises 🤎🖤
My heart is full. So many hearts left fuller than they came.
If you want to support their work, please connect with them, donate, participate, share, volunteer ☝🏽
Continuity is possible with community y'all. To old and new friends, love you 🤗
Happy Black History Month ✊🏽
j.l.y.artistry
its.uvie
11/27/2025
Wondering why all of a sudden there's a surge of exes, friends, co-workers/leaders and family being labelled with NPD? 🚩
I don't know if you're noticing it, but I am.
I hear it in conversations, in person and online, more often than I ever have in the past.
Compassionately, if a family, friend, or ex partner ended it/chose no contact, I can see how this can trigger existing wounds of abandonment AND it isn't acceptable to label them NPD as retaliation.
It is easy to reach for a label when we are hurt. This is what Judgement in Nonviolent Communication includes, labelling (one of many key forms of judgments in NVC)
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is a severe clinical diagnosis. When we throw labels out because we are hurt, it risks harm to those that have experienced the abuse of NPD AND when we receive these labels ourselves, we know how damaging this can be, especially if done online or in your place of work or family/community.
This post breaks it down a bit (for more on it, citations are provided on each slide):
🚨 The Smear Campaign
🌪️ The Chaos - Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Attachment Theory
⛑️ The Safety Check
When and why did I stop dancing?
That was what came up for me when I was dancing this past week. My body remembered, my soul came alive, my ancestors rejoiced, and peace, joy and resurgence was claimed.
The answer: When I was afraid.
I remember asking my girl how the F I was going to pay my rent, get my degree, feed my kids, get around with no car, and recover from the harm of my last 2 relationships... She just said: "You'll figure it out. We got you."
Now, I pay my own rent, I feed my kids well, the girls are happy, I'm excelling in school and my circle is soooooooo incredibly generous and supportive.
All things I didn't quite recognize as possible and already available to me while I was hustling for my worth.
Dance has always been there, (ballet/jazz age 3 - 18) but slowly, it became less and less often.
I was lost in a pattern that worked for a long time to meet my need for self-worth.
A pattern of over-extending, saying yes when I needed to say no, choosing relationships when I needed to be in solitude and choosing partners where my value was only validated by how much I could do for them.
An elder I deeply respect in education activism recently said to me: "You can chase your dreams but not successfully if you don't have the right support." And I couldn't agree more. He highlighted a story of a man he knew that changed careers to pursue a passion he had, leaving behind his family business, but the family wasn't prepared to support his decision. They lost everything almost. The moral to the story was - you need supports to pursue big dreams. It is a level of privilege that I'm able to go to school right now and I've never felt more held, seen, encouraged and loved.
So thank you to my people and to those also wondering why they stopped dancing - the wonder will take you to the answer, meet her with compassion and she'll show you. 😘
09/19/2025
Naming privileging agency with a short reflection exercise for you:
Privileging Agency and the Cost to Our Well-Being: A Contemplative Lens — Mindfulness Meghan Explore the concept of privileging agency and its cost to our well-being. This mindful reflection examines how power, structure, and agency shape our lives, inviting readers to notice feelings of powerfulness and powerlessness and to approach healing as both personal and collective.
02/21/2025
To read the full blog post: https://www.mindfulnessmeghan.com/blog/blackhistory2025
02/18/2025
Each year, Black History Month arrives, and I sit with the familiar tension, hope for change, yet the weight of repetition.
As a mother and educator, I’ve learned to notice, to breathe through the discomfort, but also to name it. Schools condition Black students to accept, not question. But awareness is the first step to liberation.
My latest blog, Heritage Harmony, reflects on what’s missing—psychological safety, decolonized learning, and Afrofuturism—and how we can co-create something better. Let’s move beyond tokenism and into true transformation. 🌿✊🏾
Blog is available on my website.
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