Inquiry – Emotions
It can be completely reasonable to feel emotions like sadness, anger, or depression in response to historical oppression, or social injustice, or marginalisation, or climate change. Rather than dismissing emotions, and people who express them, as difficult or undesirable, Transitioners will ideally stand in solidarity with those who are suffering and demand structural change to uplift everyone’s well-being.
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Written by
Root Cuthbertson (2020)
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