This Week's Mindful Morsel 🍪 | November 5, 2025 — recognizing safety to speak up
Happy good Wednesday đź’ś
Today’s Mindful Morsel is a reminder that you deserve to speak up. For yourself. For others. For what you believe in. And you deserve to feel safe in doing so.
The other day I was sitting with some parents while my daughter was in her dance class, and I overheard another parent saying that he would pull his daughter out of public school if he found out they were including anything with LGBTQIA+ in the classroom, saying that there was no reason to include “that” in schools.
Without hesitation, I spoke up.
I told him that including materials that include the LGBTQIA+ community teaches empathy and kindness for real-world diversity. While there’s a lot more that I wish I would have said in that minute-long interaction, I’m really proud of me for using my voice, especially because many past versions of me wouldn’t have.
As a queer woman, I’ve experienced a lot of situations where it hasn’t felt safe to speak up, and I know many of you have encountered those too. It’s sadly all too easy to stay stuck in danger-detected mode. Living in a world where most things feel like an immediate threat to your own or your family’s safety dulls your ability to discern when it is safe to speak up.
This is one of the reasons that mindfulness practices are so important – so you can stay with yourself during the hard things. So you can have the presence to speak up. So you can recognize when it’s safe.
Without my own mindfulness work, I would have checked right out of that situation with the other parent. All my radar would have gone berserk and I would have absolutely shut down out of fear. Instead, without thinking, I found myself breathing and forming articulated words. I recognized that I felt grounded enough in my body and safe enough that I could do those things.
Today, I’m thanking myself for speaking up, for exploring all the mindfulness practices I do, and for being courageous and ever-hopeful in planting seeds of change. I’m also grateful that I get to share all these things with you, out loud and in writing. May we continue to plant the most brilliant seeds together 🌱
With good energy,
