Here you can learn more about compassion based interventions, kind movement practices (aka yoga practices for chronic pain and illnesses), and wellness practices based in art, naturopathy, writing and meditation.
Jujube and I doing yoga! 
yoga for chronic pain 
Art as wellness 
duck, duck, duck…
click to view compassion based writing and empathy research 
meditation 
outdoor yoga
a helpful thought…
“Hope is not something to hold on to or let go of. It is an emergent thought that occurs your goal is on the foreseeable horizon and you know the next step it takes to get there.” – Jocelyn Townsend, 2020
‘Zero tolerance policies’ do not work. It is necessary to have some tolerance for the distress of discrimination when you are in a position of power in order to address it effectively. Tolerance is not synonymous with learned helplessness or excusing the behaviour. It is rooted in awareness and accountability. Tolerance is necessary to address a problem with reduced toxic shame. Toxic shame is what occurs when we downplay or deny a behaviour because we fear the consequences. When a society does not have some tolerance, toxic shame is empowered and with that denial thrives and social inequities continue.
– my thoughts 2021.
kind movement. Compassionate mind. Empathic research. 
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