Ow, Canada: A 13-Day Reflective Journaling Challenge to Explore What We Don’t Know About the Legacy of Residential Schools in Canada

by Leesa Renée | Jul 7, 2021 | Stumble Bravely

UPDATE: The Ow, Canada Challenge will be ending on Day 8. Forty-eight hours after the last topic and prompt are posted, I will archive the challenge. I’m shortening the challenge due to two reasons which I explain in this 14-minute video posted to Instagram (if...

Meet Your Inner Oppressor: The Part of You That Bullies, Guilts, and Tempts You Into Submitting to the Dominant Culture

by Leesa Renée | Jul 26, 2020 | Inner Field Trip

Meet your Inner Oppressor.⁣⁣Your Inner Oppressor is designed to bully, guilt, and tempt you into submitting to the dominant culture.⁣⁣⁣⁣It keeps your biases hidden so you conform.⁣⁣⁣⁣It keeps your boundaries weak so you #PeoplePlease.⁣⁣⁣⁣It masks your sensitivities so...

Stumble Bravely: Why You Will Absolutely Fail In Your Quest to Become Anti-Racist, Anti-Biased, and Anti-Oppressive – And Why You Must Keep Going

by Leesa Renée | Jun 15, 2020 | Inner Field Trip, Privilege & Power, Sustainability

You will stumble in your quest to become anti-racist. Stumble bravely.⁣You will not have all the answers.⁣⁣Stumble bravely.⁣⁣You will be called out for doing harm.⁣⁣Even after you’ve read the anti-racism book, watched the anti-racism film, and protested loudly...

Inner Field Trip™: Helping Those With Gentle, Quiet, and Highly Sensitive Personalities Explore Unconscious Biases So They Protect Their Energy, Stand on the Side of Justice, and Become Better Ancestors (Next One Departing Soon)

by Leesa Renée | Jun 11, 2020 | Inner Field Trip

After going through a year long process to deconstruct and decolonize the narrative I’ve been led to believe about my social and biological identities, I thought I was supposed to do activism a certain way. I thought I was supposed to be expressive, boisterous,...

7 Ways Highly Sensitive People Can Protect Their Energy In Uncertain Times

by Leesa Renée | Jun 5, 2020 | Boundaries, Highly Sensitive People

I remember having dinner with a colleague. He, like me, is highly sensitive and introverted. Amongst the chatter and noise in the restaurant, my colleague asked me a single question: “How do you protect your energy as a person who identifies as highly...