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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

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Fall +Leafs=dawgs

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Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

THIS. This is why we're reading Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming Fear of Death is Politically Vital. Death denial and the fear of death are absolutely related to systems of oppression and supremacy. rowecenter.org/radical-mind...

Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming Fear of Death is Politically Vital

This is not your typical book club. Beginning September 14th, the Rowe Center will host a weekly online gathering to explore Radical Mindfulness by author James K. Rowe. In 90 minute sessions, we will...

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Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Our first gathering was an engaging, tender affair, with both interesting discussion of the content and heart-open sharing. You can still join the conversation! rowecenter.org/radical-mind...

Advert for Radical Mindfulness book club; free online weekly reading group from September 14th to January 25th through www.rowecenter.org

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Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Starts Sunday! Free to attend! Free PDF! Sweet discount on the book! This online reading group is exploring Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming the Fear of Death is Politically Vital. Goodness knows, I wish this wasn't so relevant. Join us in community to read this important text together.

Advert for online reading group beginning September 14th; free to attend Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming Fear of Death is Politically Vital

Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Existential fear of death + systems of oppression. Seems like a good time to discuss. Join our reading group which begins Sunday, September 14th and runs approximately six months. FREE to attend. FREE PDF of the book. 30% discount from the publisher till end of Oct. rowecenter.org/radical-mind...

Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming Fear of Death is Politically Vital

Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Or- here me out- a mindfulness practice. I mean, we could at least TRY.

Comment: I'm not saying it would fix everything but I would feel slightly better if I had an enchanted sword

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Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Mindfulness Informed End of Life is a transformative, scholarly, heart-centred approach to dying...and it's in its last year at the University of Toronto. I HIGHLY recommend this program. #Mindfulness #EndOfLife #APDoula #MindfulnessPractice #Presence #compassion

Advert for Mindfulness Informed End of Life certificate program at the University of Toronto; bridging science and practice.

Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I'm enjoying a mindful moment of beauty.

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Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

In this moment. And in this moment. And in this moment. And in this moment.

Message, "we can always begin again" at the centre of a starburst.

Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I was at the cottage last month and my own copy of Radical Mindfulness was defiled by racoons, after also destroying (and eating!) a box of chocolates. You can't really see in this image, but there are tiny claw marks on the cover and chocolately paw marks on the pages.

Copy of the book Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming Fear of Death is Politically Vital by James Rowe on a coffee table

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 07/09/2025

And you all: I really don’t think there is a way out of it- it is mandatory, inevitable, absolutely required at this crossroads for survival If you are all “Why bother?” about community/group work I encourage you to attend this upcoming discussion with Dr Deserie Charles:

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Discussion: Community Work - Why Bother & What Stops Us — What A Shrink Thinks

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Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

My work in mindfulness + end-of-life follows in some follows the greats. Think The Tibetan Book of the Dead, the writing of Dr. James Carse, the clinical work of Dr. Michele Chaban, and now James Rowe, author of Radical Mindfulness. The skills for deathcare are deeply human rather than technical.

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Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

How does the existential fear of death lead to systems of oppression? How can mindfulness support a more just society? Find out in our free-to-join online reading group, Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming the Fear of Death is Politically Vital. Starts soon! rowecenter.org/radical-mind...

Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming Fear of Death is Politically Vital

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Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Phew, it's been a spell! An extended ramble over the summer, a moving meditation, was a welcome contemplative practice. But back into the swing of things as fall approaches, and I'm delighted to invite you to join a special reading group! rowecenter.org/radical-mind...

Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming Fear of Death is Politically Vital

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Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

What do mindfulness and end-of-life care have in common? Both teach us how to stay rooted, to respond rather than react. These are useful skills in tumultuous times. #Mindfulness #MindfulPractice #EndOfLife #EOLDoula #DeathDoula #APDoula #Presence #Practice #TipsForLife #MindfulnessMeditation

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Stefanie 🏳️‍⚧️ @foxenlock.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Took me years to realise, but it’s punk af to look after yourself

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Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Empathy as Superpower: Workshop Thursday May 22nd. Free to attend; register at kelly-butler.com

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Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Yes! In a culture that craves fast/smooth, we must learn to stay on the slow path, travel that doesn't race towards destination. This is practice.

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Jeremy David Engels @jeremydavidengels.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

When days feels like years, Take a mindful breath. Feel the earth under your feet. Be where you are. As you breathe in, say to yourself, I know that I am breathing in. As you breathe out, say to yourself, I know that I am breathing out. Repeat as needed. And it will be needed repeatedly.

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Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This Thursday! Register here: kelly-butler.com

Superhero and villain in battle; empathy versus "I got mine." An online workshop advertisement: for more or to register, kelly-butler.com

John Miedema @johnmiedema.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

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The Buddhist idea that you are nothing is misunderstood. In fact you are something, for a moment, but slowly changing. The qualities and components of you change at various rates. That which is continuous, for now, is you. #mindfulness #meditation

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Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Free workshop this Thursday! Empathy is more than kindness or understanding—it is the felt experience of being with another, allowing their reality to touch our own. Empathy helps us connect, resolve conflict, and nurture meaningful relationships. Register: kelly-butler.com

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Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

There is no safety, only trust. This is an intersection of mindfulness and deathcare. Both bring us into the awareness that all we have is the present moment.

Image of flowers and bats feeding on nectar with text, "There is no safety, only trust."

Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Hell, yeah. Self-aware + self-compassion = reframe.

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Jeremy David Engels @jeremydavidengels.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

In dark and challenging times, I remember that there is still goodness in the world. Right now I find hope in the fact that there are people out there, like you, who care, and who want to make the world a more just, welcoming, inclusive, and safe place. Thank you for all you do—a big hug to you!

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Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It was a pleasure to lead participants in a practice of shrouding, and to contemplate our finitude, our eventual end of days.

Several people lying on the floor shrouded, as they are led in a meditation on end-of-life.

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Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Yes, this is the practice. Yes, it's political. kelly-butler.com

Workshop poster with image of human heart.
This Machine Kills Fascists: Empathy As Superpower
Online Workshop May 22nd at 3pmET

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Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I hear the ringing. Another profound and gratifying weekend teaching Mindfulness Informed End of Life has come to a close. Since 2018, every session has revealed greater depths and fresh insight.

Haiku by Basho, translated by Robert Bly:
The temple bell stops-
but the sound keeps coming
out of the flowers.

Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Being present to what is...we're here for it.

Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This Machine Kills Fascists: Empathy As Superpower Join us for an online event where we explore the power of empathy. Empathy is both a relational practice and a neurobiological capacity, and critical for human development and thriving. It's a superpower!! www.eventbrite.ca/e/this-machi...

Illustration of a human heart and text, "This machine kills fascists. Empathy as Superpower. Online workshop May 22nd at 3pm"

Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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One of the hardest skills for many trauma survivors, including me, to learn in recovery is pacing. We've been trying to run a marathon in bursts of high intensity intervals, & it's been hell on our joints & adrenals. "Slow & steady" is often a new, suspicious concept for us.

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

"Calm down or else" is not a command our nervous system is going to respond to-- or even knows how to respond to. Implicit threats are an attack & an abandonment. It's how our abusers "related" to us-- & our nervous system & "parts" remember.

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Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

We are relational beings! There is no separate self.

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Kelly Butler MHSc @kelly-butler.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

How do we stay regulated, soothed, connected? How do we thrive? Empathy is the secret sauce, our superpower. Free teaching coming in May. Stay tuned!