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MelanieLynnBrown

@embeingempowered.bsky.social

Educator & Policy consultant~mapping the biology of structural harm~that trauma thing is not just your psychology~Lover of sauna, hot yoga-& all things sweaty~ Losing myself in a great memoir is the happy place~Wholism is the goal~New Here-Let's connect!

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"Everybody’s corruptβ€”but you?" Bernie & RFK Jr. Go Full C-SPAN Celebrity Deathmatch
YouTube video by Diaper Diplomacy "Everybody’s corruptβ€”but you?" Bernie & RFK Jr. Go Full C-SPAN Celebrity Deathmatch

Babie Bernie πŸ˜‚
youtu.be/dD2UA5-SAvQ?...

06.09.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#FDT

24.08.2025 04:06 β€” πŸ‘ 186    πŸ” 117    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 16

Very relatable. My first year teaching many years back I taught 6 sections of the same course- my poor first class lol. What it quickly taught me is that learning is such a co-created experience, the different questions I would get from different cohorts helped me continuously refine and grow.

21.08.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Missing the human voice wrapped up in letters, pauses, erratic pulses and messy minds.

To those who write like they speak, and carve the lives of their thoughts through blood, sweat and care... stay you.

You are the voices we need in this time.

21.08.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Praying for your safety. ✨

10.08.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Where is this?

10.08.2025 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This.

26.07.2025 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3615    πŸ” 1222    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 70
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On substack @MelanieLynnBrown

26.07.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have to say it’s been a wild fucking trip to observe how the worst people in news will try to make themselves the victim and call you a bully as an individual simply for speaking out against your own abuse.

Truly, a wild fucking journey.

18.07.2025 12:43 β€” πŸ‘ 325    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 5
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NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."

28.06.2025 01:08 β€” πŸ‘ 26964    πŸ” 5375    πŸ’¬ 574    πŸ“Œ 659
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People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

25.06.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 25151    πŸ” 13010    πŸ’¬ 2544    πŸ“Œ 2033
David Hogg (@davidhogg.bsky.social)

@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
You need to resign. Women, & all survivors of sexual abuse will be working for WHOMEVER runs against you. Ambition, affluenza and sycophancy are not the qualities we need in our leaders.

@davidhogg.bsky.social Please tell us she’s on your list!

27.06.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Zero Days - Official Trailer
YouTube video by Madman Films Zero Days - Official Trailer

Highly recommend given todays news. It's a 2016 documentary about Iran nuclear weapons and the US/Israel state-sponsored cyberweapon, Stuxnet, designed to attack the PLCs (essential for safety and control) inside Iranian nuclear systems.

youtu.be/C8lj45IL5J4?...

22.06.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Remembering the children of the elite won't have to get bone spur exemptions anymore-#project2025 exempts students in private schools from the draft.

22.06.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here’s the thing, if they are picking up folks working in the country illegally, I’m going to need to see some white guys also being arrested for employing people working illegally in the country.

Otherwise, it’s just racism.

29.05.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 24325    πŸ” 5843    πŸ’¬ 963    πŸ“Œ 415
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In case you hadn't noticed:

23.04.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 46954    πŸ” 10843    πŸ’¬ 799    πŸ“Œ 481

πŸ™Œ Triple emphasis on the RESPONSIVE part -having that conversation all day everyday in my work-who CARES if you are trauma-informed...What are you doing? That language shows were we put the importance. Check, I did my 2 hour professional development workshop-NO, HOW are you BEING in that classroom!

21.04.2025 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

THIS PART!!! πŸ™Œ

20.04.2025 11:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Do-Gooders" and Dad Girls "Do-Gooder" harm and dignity assaults would become a potent theme in later years...

"Do-Gooders" and Dad Girls
substack.com/@melanielynn...

19.04.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Are we ready to start accepting the narrative violence we have all been indoctrinated by?

There’s a reason it’s the β€œmessy” traumatized humans that were seen as pathological β€”if health is being a bystander to your own abuseβ€”call me β€œdis-eased”.

17.04.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What if our acceptance of the LIMITS on the range of debate was made more clear?

What if we knew our vulnerability to see WE TOO could be manipulated under certain circumstances, WE TOO too could be broke, or addicted, or OUR way of life upended over night?

#questionthenarrative #traumawholism

09.04.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

can convince ourselves of course...Yet, what if... "Politics (and law) is just what we decide to do together?"~Barney Frank, first openly Gay member of the U.S. Congress

07.04.2025 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

be reversed? Listening to the counterpoints to my assertion, from a cohort of future lawyers, was like people on social media who are effective communicators begin an argument with a false premise that most can't contextualize with background knowledge. There are arugments with which we

07.04.2025 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

sterilize people deemed "unfit to produce." When cases like Dobbs are reversed for being deemed an "error". Why in a time where NAZI (at least leaning) people hold leadership positions, & financial interests power to manipulate minds has never been greater, should we NOT know the Bell case could...

07.04.2025 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

long before I became a trauma wholism specialist, rings true-case reversal is clear evidence that ink on paper translated in brains means social constructs rule OVER law.

Lesser known case: Buck Vs. Bell, where the Supreme court upheld , that the state of Virginia had the legal authority to...

07.04.2025 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Tell me I'm wrong?

Constitutional camouflage gives the illusion some SAFETY.

That order creates a FEELING of less vulnerability, as if the world is somehow predictable-making us feel saferβ€”some more than others.

Yet, in fact, what I posed to my Constitutional Law professor decades ago...

07.04.2025 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Biology of Being Broke Trauma, Metabolism, and the Prescriptions We Can't Afford

Social harm is AS powerful a toxic force on the human body as any food dye.
melanielynnbrown.substack.com/p/the-biolog...?

05.04.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
RFK’s infantilizing eugenic MAHA promotions are an example of NEPO-blindness on steroids and will make little progress in improving American health. The science and biophysiological realities of EMBODIED METABOLICS and TRAUMA WHOLISM make clearβ€”social harm is AS powerful a toxic force on the human body as any food dye.

What if we acknowledged that poverty itselfβ€”stand alone, no other factorsβ€”CAUSES physical disease? This isn't metaphorical. Your body literally transforms under financial stress through a process scientists call "allostatic load"β€”the cumulative biological burden exacted on your body when you're forced to adapt to hardship. What if human bodies' ADAPTATIONS to social toxins to ensure SURVIVAL were celebratedβ€” not serially sectioned in addiction treatment, placating psychiatric facilities, and sentenced to state pens? What if creating the conditions for survival safety was seen as the necessary medicine?

RFK’s infantilizing eugenic MAHA promotions are an example of NEPO-blindness on steroids and will make little progress in improving American health. The science and biophysiological realities of EMBODIED METABOLICS and TRAUMA WHOLISM make clearβ€”social harm is AS powerful a toxic force on the human body as any food dye. What if we acknowledged that poverty itselfβ€”stand alone, no other factorsβ€”CAUSES physical disease? This isn't metaphorical. Your body literally transforms under financial stress through a process scientists call "allostatic load"β€”the cumulative biological burden exacted on your body when you're forced to adapt to hardship. What if human bodies' ADAPTATIONS to social toxins to ensure SURVIVAL were celebratedβ€” not serially sectioned in addiction treatment, placating psychiatric facilities, and sentenced to state pens? What if creating the conditions for survival safety was seen as the necessary medicine?

RFK’s infantilizing eugenic MAHA promotions are an example of NEPO-blindness on steroids and will make little progress in improving American health. The science and biophysiological realities of embodied metabolics and trauma wholism make clearβ€”πŸ‘‡

05.04.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ukumbwa@bsky.social & I will be co-facilitating the event.

Watch VIRTUALLY
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Or In-PERSON
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More Info @
www.embeingempowered.com/an-army-of-w...
USE password "Embeing" (*with no quote marks!)

youtu.be/PRdZAg3NGVQ?...

05.04.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
AN ARMY OF WOMEN - OFFICIAL TRAILER
YouTube video by Together Films AN ARMY OF WOMEN - OFFICIAL TRAILER

Will you help us spread the word?

DESPAIR transformed in the DOING something about it!

"An Army of Women" is a film that show HOW to effect change.
Join us or the Film & Discussion on:
Saturday APRIL 19th

VIRTUALLY or IN-PERSON @ The LINK, Cambridge MA.
Trailer:

youtu.be/PRdZAg3NGVQ?...

05.04.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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