What if naming difference could deepen belonging rather than threaten it? Deb reflects on weaving, dignity, and the courage to see clearly.

What if your year wasn’t about achieving more, but weaving something deeper? Deb explores slow growth, dignity, and the threads that hold us together.

What would it look like to build movements where no one is disposable — including ourselves? Deb explores grace, trauma responses, and the courage to stay present.

Grace that stays present in discomfort. Deb reflects on the courage it takes to hold empathy, accountability, and self-compassion in the work for justice.

When you take shame and punishment off the table, you step closer to liberation. What if self-compassion became your form of activism?

Discomfort doesn’t have to mean collapse. It can be a doorway to rest, beauty, and balance — a practice in staying nourished and resourced even when the world speeds up.

A meditation on poetry, presence, and the power of language to make us one — a reminder that art can be both resistance and prayer.

What if the pause itself was worth celebrating? Deb reflects on how small celebrations — even in complex times — create capacity for healing, joy, and change.

Deb Valentine explores how perfectionism can paralyze growth — and how embracing B+ effort opens the door to joy, peace, and possibility.

When the world feels urgent, maybe the bravest thing you can do is slow down.

This week’s blog is a reminder to pause. To walk in the rain.

Herbs, rituals, tea, boundaries, and soul work — here’s what’s nourishing me this fall.

Peace doesn’t come from perfection. It comes from being true to your values — in action.

Discipline without shame? I’m trying it — one floss, one choice, one mistake at a time.

Even if you're exhausted, you're not broken. You might just need deeper nourishment.

Even decades into healing, my nervous system still surprises me.

A synchronicity on a country road, a peace labyrinth, and a song that keeps finding me.

This week, I am practicing living the questions instead of demanding answers.

 From Langston Hughes to Layli Long Soldier and why I believe poetry helps us heal and take action.

 When you receive something good—do you let it in? Or do you brace for something bad?