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Nan Tepper's avatar

Brava, Kate and Bardette! I'll tell you that's exactly how I feel. I've come to a point in my life where for the first time, I feel like I am thriving. Things are coming true for me. No way in fuck am I going to give that up. I'm not going to cower. I am angry, but I'm not going to get stuck in the anger, because when I do, nothing good happens for me. Because then I'm just stuck. I'm going to harness that anger, and turn it into productivity, for speaking the truth and walking my talk. The time is here for thriving, for arriving, and striving for more. Because there are too many riches (not talking material here) I don't want to miss. So there! xo

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Kate McGunagle's avatar

yes, now is not the time to surrender all we have created and continue to build! i am with you in this commitment to speaking the truth and being present with the abundance. thanks for being here, friend. xo

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Cara Holland's avatar

Thriving nonetheless.

I love that sentence, it has such power.

I'm so pleased your cups are full.

Beautiful work x

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Kate McGunagle's avatar

thank you, Cara 🤍

i think i may just have to put that phrase on a mug (a full one, of course!).

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Cara Holland's avatar

Thriving merch : )

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Kate McGunagle's avatar

ooooo, yes! i love this!

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Kate Mapother's avatar

Not for you, bitches —sublime. Thanks for this. Solidarity 🤍

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Kate McGunagle's avatar

my favorite line as well ✨thanks for being here, Kate!

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B. Moen's avatar

Such wisdom, Kate. I am ready to thrive and enjoy the life I have, too. Glad to have the student become the teacher and come full circle, my friend.

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Kate McGunagle's avatar

you were one of the first to give me a glimpse of what thriving can look like as a lover of words. and in my opinion, the student-teacher cycle is an infinity loop. i’m grateful to be in this ongoing exchange of wisdom with you, ever since you first celebrated my ten-year-old’s burgeoning way with words. 🤍

side by side, we will thrive!

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Robin Taylor (he/him)'s avatar

Let me know when you can stop by my place and paint a mural on my walls. Must include cuss. Please and thank you.

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Kate McGunagle's avatar

name the time and day and i am absolutely there 🤍

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Gillian & Li'l Bean's avatar

Perfect, perfect, perfect! So glad to find you today. Thank you!

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Kate McGunagle's avatar

thank you for being here, Gillian!!

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Dr Deborah Vinall's avatar

Yes! Beautiful. Thank you for sharing your art and your truth with us. So many feel this connection to domestic abuse from the rising of this man and you speak with wisdom and hope to that.

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Kate McGunagle's avatar

thank you so much, Dr. Vinall, for reading and listening - and for the important advocacy work you are doing yourself! it is imperative to name what all of this means for survivors everywhere, and to keep naming it. grateful for your readership and your work.

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Jennifer Schiffer's avatar

I love this. I love people. I care about people. And they care about me back. 🧡 I am giving my all and trying to hear from people who are different from me. I'm scared for friends but I want to give them space to say what they need and all they feel.

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Kate McGunagle's avatar

giving space to those around us to feel seen and heard is so important right now! thank you for doing that with your people. and thank you for being here, Jennifer.

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Debs Lyon's avatar

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this. As a queer artist and a survivor, you have no idea what it means to me to have found a voice like yours that I can say "HELL YES!" to. I'm early in my transition from surviving to thriving, and it's so freaking hard. Posts like this make it feel just a little easier.

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Kate McGunagle's avatar

i am so very glad you are here, Debs! welcome. and i celebrate your survivorship, wherever it is currently. transitioning to thriving is a complex, terrifically challenging, and painful uncharted process. you have got this - and you deserve to thrive. i am so grateful that my words could play a part in that process for you. keep going! ☀️

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Rachna Khare's avatar

This was exactly what I needed...thank you for sharing your heart and talent with the world!

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