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In Praise of the Herbal Mind Menders

Cyree Jarelle Johnson 16/7/25 Cyree Jarelle Johnson 16/7/25

In Praise of the Herbal Mind Menders

Mind menders are what I call the herbs that keep my mind well enough to go about my daily business. They’re all nervines, many with a tonic function — and they’re soothing to my body/mind as much as my spirit.

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When you can’t fight back, your body keeps on fighting

Cyree Jarelle Johnson 16/7/25 Cyree Jarelle Johnson 16/7/25

When you can’t fight back, your body keeps on fighting

Lenormand’s Whip and a spiritual theory on two decades of autoimmunity.

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Temperance: Spiritual Ableism, Healing, and Wholeness

Cyree Jarelle Johnson 6/6/25 Cyree Jarelle Johnson 6/6/25

Temperance: Spiritual Ableism, Healing, and Wholeness

The way we talk about healing in spiritual spaces can be fucked up! At best, it's vague and sprawling. At worst, its just straight up ableism.

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Burnout is a part of capitalism.

When our spirits and bodies say “no” and capitalism says “but you’re gunna do it anyway,” burnout is inevitable.

Some thoughts on the stack today about how to move through cycles of bu

New on the stack 🗞️

Writing about love and letting stuff be enough for now sometimes. Even folks who get idolized did their part for liberation but hero worship keeps us from acknowledging that they did not liberate us once and for all.

How can t

I’ve been reading cards for twenty-four years, officially two thirds of my life. I started when I was twelve years old under the watchful eye of my mother and aunties.

It’s a pleasure to do this work for folks, and nothing (at least wor

I’ve been meaning to write about #Tarot ‘s Six of Cups for a long time.

As things have grown dire, that desire grew.

The Six of Cups is movement work in practice. It relies upon our ability to nourish our emotions and meet our physical

This week’s stack is about relaxant nervines that may promote a better relationship with sleep and dreaming.

I’ve interpreted my dreams pretty much every night since I was twelve or thirteen, which means I have to be super serious about

For this week’s stack, I wrote about the term “dr*in the sw*mp” and how it has been used by colonizers since the earliest years of this country to do the twin work of stopping Black resistance and environmental degradation.

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⦿ I work on unceded lands of the Stockbridge-Munsee
people and pay my respect to Elders both
past, present and future.

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