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Jan 14Liked by Liz Plank

This is gorgeous and I hope I’m able to join!

My (not so) hot take I was just talking with friends about is that: Healthy/engaged/emotionally intimate communities have the capacity to change and heal the world.

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i totally agree we’ve privatized stress when our communities have the power to hold us together ❤️

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Exactly. We are told we have to do it all on our own and pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps (which is not possible), and forget that having a group of people around us can keep us falling in the first place.

I love the West Wing quote “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful and committed people can change the world” because I think some institutions benefit from people believing that they have no power.

Thank you for forming a group like this 🤗

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Hi Liz! I just emailed you / responded to today's Substack about volunteering support for the sharing circle in exchange for a subscription. I am a Community Manager and would love to help! :]

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I can gift a subscription to anyone who would like it. Please let me know if you're interested.

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It says I'm a subscriber - if not please bill me. If I can contribute I'd love to, funnily enough I have made a living out of writing ever since I started journalism school in 1976, nowadays I find it increasingly difficult to write a full sentence...anyways let's see what develops in retirement

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