💛Allison Crow

Stay self-connected. Stay community connected. Stay human.

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate.

I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man.

Never change your last name.

#109 Training in Compassion - Skillful Means Podcast Continuing our series on Awakening the Heart, this month we're exploring the Buddhist path of the bodhisattva through the cultivation of bodhicitta - the awakened heart-mind that forms the foundation of compassionate living. Drawing from Maha...

This month on the pod,, we're training up compassion.

Highlights:
~ cultivating an open-hearted attitude
~ character strengths of enlightened beings
~ Lojong, Tibetan Buddhist Mind Training for cultivating compassion

www.skillfulmeanspodcast.co...

He was in Greece and stayed for a few extra days after he heard the news.

Shout out to those who are not “content creators” - not here to entertain or chase the algorithm- but are here to share our heart and show our work to educate and connect 💛

Grief Lives in the Body Grief isn’t just emotional—it’s physical. This post explores how loss impacts your body and includes simple tools for somatic care and nervous system support.

Tight jaw. Racing heart. Exhaustion that sleep can’t touch.

Grief shows up in the body long before we name it.

This post is about how to listen, support, and return to yourself—without needing to “fix” anything.
#grief #somaticgrief #griefsupport #healingjourney

It takes up so much energy and space to be in pain!

Your limited capacity is not a moral failure.

This…. All of it is alarming.

Thank you.

Some days require fiction by the pool. Thanks H for the new book and the reminder that I can put down my “learning” books every now and then. Happy Saturday, y’all.

Agreed. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Take time to look and listen - when it all finally makes sense. Finally coming home to re-enchantment. Gawd knows the world needs more of it. allisoncrow.substack.com/p/take-time-...

Crow doodles!

As I walked my dog this morning - just he and I and the road side wildflowers and weeds, I thought to myself…”I sure would like to be a poet but this having to make money sure is interfering.” ☀️

The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024.

This isn't due to luck or skill.

Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you.

Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.

Texas bluebonnets

No. You’ve been watching stock market fraud.

Ya think.

It’s amazing how even just unbending and being with is often so effective. Not even having to go through the whole process.

Telling poor people to be more entrepreneurial is sick

this lens has been wholly transformative for me. And hooray London. I'm pretty sure all my past lives were there as it'
s the ONLY city my body relaxes in. And most of my DNA comes from there.

What is something "no one talks about" in small business and solopreneurship that you wish people were talking about? 💛

I love this. Slowing down has really served me.

At some point, part of reclaiming yourself is learning about the tools you would never use — the ones that others may have used against you — so you can finally see them clearly for what they are. 🔚

You were likely taught — directly or indirectly — to gaslight yourself. To doubt your own reality. To contort yourself into thinking they must be right and you must be wrong.
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Take gaslighting, for example. When someone with power over you (or someone trying to have power over you) gaslights you, you probably weren’t taught to recognize it as manipulation.⬇️

🔥 Most of us were never trained to recognize the tactics that manipulative or deceitful people — or systems — use to gain power. Instead, we were trained to internalize their behavior, take it personally, and assume we were the problem.
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Wouldn’t it be fun if it took off. I love short form video. And most of my engagement here comes from being on an IFS list. Good to see and hear you.