Check-out

• Standing steady despite scary scenes, cop tactics, shitty weather, feeling isolated, and neglecting needs are what this training is about.
• Acute stress response: adrenaline preps you to fight or flee. When we freeze or feel like we have to wait, it gets toxic: Isolation, dissociation, and feeling powerless.
• Solution, not that hard. Have a buddy (fuck isolation), ground yourself in your emotions and what's really happening around you (fuck dissociation), and do something (you are not powerless). What you do: that's between you and your buddy.
• Human barometer: "Someone in my family understands me and why I'm out here." "I'm ready for the grand jury decision to come back." "I'm ready for another month of waiting."
• Check-out: low-point/high point.
• Thank you all!!!!