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It All Gets To Belong by Jane Ratcliffe

The Body, Brain, and Books: Eleven Questions with writer, teacher, and somatics practitioner Johanna Franzel

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‘Write Yourself Home’ with Johanna Franzel by Clare Morin

New podcast episode! The Stream Conversations

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Write Yourself Home by Sparklandia⚡️🪩⚡️

Johanna Franzel Wrote Something Important

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This sucks & I love you.
Johanna Franzel Johanna Franzel

This sucks & I love you.

Grieving without a discrete event to organize around is confusing. The sheer ongoingness of this pandemic winter means we are in constant and nebulous mourning. Our condition feels chronic. But if having a chronic condition teaches me anything, it’s that when you can’t find the thread of what works, adopt extreme gentleness. Meet this moment with an inartful but deep truth: This sucks, and I love you.

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