Giving Compass' Take:

· In this article from YES! Magazine, the author relays advice from Alicia Garza in a recent Healing Justice Podcast about how to approach the new year. 

· What advice can be taken from Alicia Garza when preparing for the new year? 

· Read more about Alicia Garza and her efforts. 

Who’s ready for 2020?!

As we head into the next decade, many of us are already worn down, discouraged, and exhausted from the rapid-fire struggles of the past three years and beyond. We are still feeling the freshness of the cries of “don’t let this become the new normal!” from early 2017, while witnessing the bizarreness of it all come to pass. For many of us, finally entering the year 2020 doesn’t exactly come along with a sense of ease.

Healing Justice Podcast is building infrastructure to support the relational, emotional, and physical needs of folks committed to the work of social justice. HJP has curated the voices of  leaders all over the world about how we can move through intensifying times with powerful focus, strength, grace, and victory. And the challenge of how to prepare ourselves for 2020 felt deeply personal and political, emotional and tactical, spiritual and strategic.

Read the full article about how to approach the new year by Zenobia Jeffries Warfield at YES! Magazine.