Kristin Miscall, LCSW

Kristin Miscall, LCSW Self-care starts with self-inquiry. Self-inquiry brings us to the present. Presence is where the que WHAT'S TRUE NOW? Self-care just makes sense.

Is all about honesty in the present versus dwelling on the past. It is rooted in the belief that psychological, spiritual, and emotional growth begins with self-care. If we are not taking care of ourselves and truly in touch with our current motivations, fears, wants, and needs, then we cannot appropriately, healthfully, care for ourselves or others. And it begins by taking stock, with asking questions and continually checking in with what is true at this very moment. Our wants, needs, and beliefs change just like everything else, so assuming that what was true for us five years ago---or even five minutes ago--is true now, can hold us back. Of course we must look at the past, but only to gain insight into how the past is shaping our truth in the present.

Hi Friends! To offer support during this time I posted a guided meditation on my website for working with difficult emot...
12/01/2021

Hi Friends! To offer support during this time I posted a guided meditation on my website for working with difficult emotions, thoughts, or body sensations. May it provide support in returning you to What's True Now. 😘

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A more timely read there never was.Grab your copy now!Thank you for this beautiful work of love. ❤️🙏❤️
08/26/2020

A more timely read there never was.
Grab your copy now!
Thank you for this beautiful work of love.
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White Comrades: Some guidelines I am practicing with ⁠*⁠Cease all personal content from June 1 to June 7⁠*⁠Amplify mela...
06/02/2020

White Comrades: Some guidelines I am practicing with ⁠
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Cease all personal content from June 1 to June 7⁠
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Amplify melanated voices by reposting content from Black voices with their captions but without my personal commentary⁠
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ALWAYS capitalize "Black" when referring to Black people and culture⁠
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Listen to my Black comrades and always remember that THEY are the ones to tell me what they need to feel supported and it is my job to just listen and follow suit accordingly. No questions, ZERO equivocation.⁠
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Knowing I'll f**k it up AND knowing that I just need to apologize, correct, and move on, no hand-wringing, no burdening Black folks to hear me.⁠
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In love and solidarity for justice and liberation ⁠

Join me, Randi Zinn and Lia Avellino for a vital conversation and Q&A with YOU where we'll dig in to the questions abou...
05/29/2020

Join me, Randi Zinn and Lia Avellino
for a vital conversation and Q&A with YOU where we'll dig in to the questions about how to meet our new normals in the wake of Covid 19
Tickets for the live podcast and recording are $20 and all proceeds go to Together Rising, benefitting families most impacted by Covid19. Snap up your spot here:

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/befriendanewnormal/register

This is for my white sisters and brothers. And first I want to say unequivocally: I am coming to you from a deeply roo...
05/28/2020

This is for my white sisters and brothers. And first I want to say unequivocally: I am coming to you from a deeply rooted love....ok now let's dig in...⁠
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I’ve written and re-written this post in my mind 100 times since the murder of . I have felt every expected emotion as a white woman and many of those emotions have been embarrassing and painful…. all revealing the work that I need to continue to do to drag apart and sincerely interrogate the nasty web of internalized whiteness.⁠
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Here are some of MY truths which I share in hopes that even one other white person in my circle here will make a sincere and honest commitment to the INNER work of seeing, identifying, naming, disrupting, and healing our 500-year-old inherited disease of allegiance to whiteness. Because even when we see over and over and over and over and over how much death and destruction it metes out every single day on the bodies of BIPOC, whiteness is most useful as a social construct, as Michael Eric Dyson says, “when its very existence is denied. That’s its twisted genius.”⁠
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When I buck and fight my internal process of facing this inherited set of privileges, I am in denial of my whiteness. When I turn away from the pain of yet ANOTHER story of murder of a Black American dying while black, I am in denial. When I sink into guilt, I am in denial. These acts of denial are literally killing Black and Brown humans. And I am responsible for this.⁠
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My white sisters, I am talking to you specifically here: we are all Amy Cooper in some way or another. And if we deny that, we are siding with white supremacy. If we other her as though the same set of inherited beliefs, behaviors, and privileges don't also run through our own veins and down to our very marrow, we are siding with white supremacy. If we continue to find ease and relief in the mere signaling of virtue as a “good liberal” without doing the very, very painful inner work with other white folks, we are siding with white supremacy.⁠
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So here’s my ask: Let’s STOP. Stop the denial. Stop the othering. Stop the virtue signaling. Stop the resistance to the inner work. It’s going to be really, really hard. But it is not even a micro-fraction of how hard it is to live while Black and Brown under the steel-toed boot of white supremacy. This is OUR work to do. This is our pain and discomfort to face. This is our liberation to take responsibility for.
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Lama Rod Owens inspired me to see so clearly that white folks need to stop focusing on insisting that Black and Brown folks accept our “love” and “kindness” but instead directly and fiercely turn the focus on loving ourselves so deeply that we are willing to cut ties over and over and over again with whiteness and white supremacy….this will be work for the rest of our lives. And it probably won't be enough to slay this monstrous dragon. Let’s do it anyway. I’m right here with you.
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In love and solidarity toward the freedom and liberation of every being on this planet.

These resources have been invaluable to me on my journey:

https://www.sandrakim.com/
https://whiteawake.org/
https://www.resmaa.com/about
https://robindiangelo.com/
https://www.lamarod.com/
https://angelkyodowilliams.com/

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05/26/2020


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Have you got your tickets yet to our first virtual event: How to be with (and befriend) a new normal during covid-19 happening Sunday, May 31st at 7pm EST?
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We’re featuring two brilliant psychotherapists & ⁣
Check out this video trailer to learn more about what it’s going to be all about! We can’t wait to share this conversation with you. ⁣
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Join me! I'll be sitting down (virtually of course!) with Randi Zinn and Lia Avellino for a much-needed conversation and...
05/25/2020

Join me! I'll be sitting down (virtually of course!) with Randi Zinn and Lia Avellino for a much-needed conversation and Q&A about how to befriend the "new normals" in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Come with your questions and comments, tell us your worries and fears. We are excited to generate soulful conversation in community!⁠
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Register here for this live pod-cast event on the platform!⁠
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https://www.crowdcast.io/e/befriendanewnormal/register⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
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“I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if t...
05/23/2020

“I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”⁠
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This is one of my favorite quotations. And it's been one that's shown up as teacher during the most difficult times in my life....this Covid-19 era is the latest of those times.⁠
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I think it's safe to say that there are more questions than answers for all of us right now. What would it take to engage radical presence with your questions?⁠
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Could you imagine a soft yet fierce upright invitation to live your questions?⁠
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Could you awaken the force of deep curiosity without the burden of conclusion or plan?⁠
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Could you navigate your fear and confusion born of those unanswerable questions knowing you are not alone?⁠
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We are together meeting this seismic world-wide shift. Let's live our questions with one another.⁠
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I am so delighted to be teaming up again with Randi Zinn for a much-needed conversation about living the "new normal" in...
05/23/2020

I am so delighted to be teaming up again with Randi Zinn for a much-needed conversation about living the "new normal" in the wake of Covid-19.

What in the world is the new normal you ask?!

Great question! Spoiler alert, there is no "THE" new normal. There will be multiple new normals or semi-normals! And we will explore them all.

Fellow psychotherapist, Lia Avellino, and I will talk with Randi in this live podcast and also field questions from you!

So bring your worries, fears, concerns, ideas, inspirations!

Sunday May 31st 7-9 PM

Register below:

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/befriendanewnormal/register




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