Hana Michels (Coaching Account)

Some ideas for creating your first neighborhood meeting to uplift your community and combat threats to neighbors during this time.

There is a balance between doing what you can to help fix this world, fostering community (which can both recharge you AND be a form of activism) and pure self-care. Everyone’s balance is different because everyone’s life, brain and circumstances are different.

See I think dancing in this burning house is the only way we keep the will to stay alive in it- and I’m here free for any activist who is losing that will, for whatever they need. I’m just a coach not a therapist, but I understand burnout personally and I’ve helped others.

Don’t take this the wrong way, as a coach I refer people out if their needs fall under the realm of therapy- but if you want a good laugh look at the DBT handbook’s “list of pleasant activities”

I really wish DBT came with a companion therapy to deal with the internal struggles, I don’t think what it has is enough for some people. I actually think the tools methodology I was trained in is a good middle ground and more adaptable, meant to change both outward behavior and the internal causes.

"How to use a podcast to get a quick creativity coaching session" - Alternate title for most recent Babylon 5 episode @slatron.bsky.social and I did with the amazing @hanamichels.bsky.social, who had some great comments on creativity and coaching.

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I will continue to have discounts for writers and artists until writing and art pay.

If you’re stuck on a creative project, force yourself to have a new life experience. Trust me.

I'm also available in a coaching capacity (but for free) to facilitate neighborhood meetings in LA in person. We're so large we need to come together neighborhood by neighborhood and I'm happy to help. (All I ask is if it's in person we're masked or at least outdoors. Not just for me.)

What I love about community building advice is it’s instinctive, easy to understand, intuitive, and so fucking hard to follow.

does the lawsuit have an impact or implications upon the value of your education? Yet you're still paying at all? Sigh. Society is so broken.

Decades of self help gurus marketing themselves and their demographic-specific easy answers have made us forget these are the only ones that matter.

LIKE THEY'RE NOT IN CHARGE OF YOUR SALARY??

Clients often want me to have the answers they need. I don’t. (It certainly makes marketing myself a bitch.) What I do have is the ability to probe and ask the right questions at the right times to get them closer to THEIR answers.

Sigh.

I have and/or am helping a lot of people translate their skills from their tech job into a more satisfying, less frustrating sector and I have methods of figuring out what that sector might be for you. Just figured I'd mention this. And that my email is Hanamichelsla@gmail.com.

Hi! it’s me! Your alma mater! I know you’re still paying off loans even after having paid your full tuition cost, but would you like to give us money? Money pweeeaasseee

It'll be helpful just to know whom in your neighborhood has which skills in a crisis. I'm so ready to help and help highlight the most emergent local needs & figure out how to fulfill them.

Stuck in a job you hate with less pay than you require to even tolerate it? We can help find you something that fits better and create a plan to deal until then

Stuck in a job you hate with less pay than you require to even tolerate it? We can help find you something that fits better and create a plan to deal until then

There is no self care without community care, ESPECIALLY now. If you're looking to meet & protect your neighbors, start mutual aid networks, etc. I will set aside time to meet with you all & facilitate these convos free of charge or optional tips only, bc we should all do what we can!

If humor resonates you I may also try using it to help you combat unhelpful or self sabotaging thoughts. After all, people remember what's emotionally resonant and important to them.

In the case of comedians and comedy writer/actor types, I understand the difference between deflection and art. I will call you out on deflection and laugh at your spinning struggles into gold (and sometimes laugh at the latter even while calling you on it.)

Note to onlookers: As a coach I liked this because
1. I know it's a joke
2. Adderall is chemically nearly identical to meth hence the joke

Find someone in this admin that is your age or close to it.
Your job is to get more out of life than their money could ever buy them. Outlive them in quantity AND quality.

Wait... do some people with ADHD hate mindfulness meditation because our lives are one long mindfulness meditation? Acknowledge the distraction and come back to the thing? Every second? Of every day?

I think it’s important to remember this moment in history is a backlash. That doesn’t mean things aren’t dire, it doesn’t mean what happens now isn’t vital to everyone’s safety, it doesn’t mean we don’t need to organize. It doesn’t diminish casualties. It DOES mean if we DO organize, we will win.

If you are starting a new artistic project and you're beating yourself up- imagine yourself as a small child when you first started making art and try to yell at this child the stuff you're yelling at yourself now. Chances are it feels insane & since this is a new project the analogy is indeed valid

It is also something we must find no matter who we are, especially if the current state of the world has us in “flight” or “freeze” mode regularly.

In fact, this flies in the face of the idea that hope is the same as naïveté. Hope is a choice one makes despite knowing and understanding systemic issues. Hope is not just a way of looking at the world. It’s a practice that is made all the more powerful when we know where to direct that practice.