Despair and the inner life

How do we continue with the inner work when everything is scary and bleak?

One book that really helped me with this question is Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit.

And I also think that it is necessary for activists to practice self care (in the Audre Lorde sense of self care, which is more of a communal and radical self care, not the commercialized version).

Sometimes, when things are overwhelmingly bleak, spirituality can seem like self-indulgence (especially when it doesn’t acknowled...