What is spiritual activism and why is it relevant?

A big topic, but here’s what I’ve been reflecting upon lately:

Spiritual activism is the practice of integrating your spirituality (whatever that looks like to you) into your personal action plans for creating a better world.

It emphasizes that there is duality in everything, and also, that nothing is binary. Internal work and outward action are two things that can coexist. The key is finding the balance that enables forward movement with both.

A truth I keep coming back to is that collective expansion leads to self expansion, and vice versa; to be deeply, spiritually connected to yourself is to recognize your role in the collective.

This is why I feel called to envision and cultivate a world in which we can all be free.

So, here is a reminder that running a small business can be much more than a way to pay the bills. It can be the thing that gives us the space we need to bring spiritual activism into our daily lives.

What if we reframed the stories we’re often told and believed this instead:

Our work is a catalyst for necessary change; it is a magical pathway that can be utilized to create the world we want, little by little.

As a digital designer, for example, my business is here to provide people with the tools they need to feel confident and grounded online, so they can then go on to impact this world for the better and fight for their own joy in the process.

So if you are here in this internet community of mine, and you resonate with any of my words, you are very much included in that vision.

I am so grateful to have you here, and I’ll always welcome the opportunity to learn more about you, your offerings, your worries, your dreams, your memes, etc.

And from here on out, my hope for this space is that it helps us all feel a bit better about bringing our whole selves into the work we do, whatever that may be.