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Joy Donnell

@doitinpublic.bsky.social

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Wordsmith of wellbeing. Author of BEYOND BRAND and SHOW US YOUR FIRE. doitinpublic.com

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Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · 1d

Thrilled to share that my poem In Praise of Afro-Cosmicism placed in this @sfpoetry.bsky.social competition.

Read: sfpoetry.org/wp/annual-co...

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · 7d

Dreams come true when you dream with your eyes open. Especially your third eye.

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · 11d

A lot of folks can’t hear themselves because they’re too busy over explaining themselves. Constantly justifying your existence leaves little room to simply exist.

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · 16d

You are always sustaining what matches your energetic minimum. When you raise your threshold by embodying new standards, saying No, or exiting misaligned spaces, your lived reality will shift to sustain your new baseline.

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · 16d

What you accept as your baseline becomes your energetic floor. The moment you stop accepting less than you deserve, you activate reality to reorganize around you.

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · 19d

Always a good reminder!

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Krystal A. Smith @authorkasmith.bsky.social · 20d

Perfect time to remind you to alcohol swab/wipe down your phones, eyeglasses, earbuds, and everyday jewelry!

a bottle of hand sanitizer has a pink cross on it

Alt: a bottle of hand sanitizer has a pink cross on it

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · Aug 27

Unashamed. ❤️

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Self-compassion makes you unashamed. It clears the shame that never belonged to you. Without shame shaping your self-love, you walk grounded in full self-regard. You finally understand that your presence is your alignment.

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · Sep 12

Your frequency memorizes how you treat what you envision. It knows that your heart’s desire is architecture for your future. Don’t discount it as a simple ache. That ache is actually propulsion, directional momentum. You don’t have to stop at “almost” when it’s gifting you with energetic precision.

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · Sep 12

Resist the social pressure cooker to shrink your vision until it fits inside the limits of what they’re willing to offer you.

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · Sep 12

Be wary of people who demand you be pragmatic when they want you to settle for less than you deserve.

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · Sep 12

If your heart's desire is clear, don't mess with the designer imposters version of it.

Don’t teach your emotional energy to redirect onto something safer, more accessible, and lower quality than what you envision.

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · Sep 12

Are you here to be someone whose attention gets seized?
Or are you here to direct your attentiveness toward what matters most to you?

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · Sep 12

Did you come to Earth to endlessly scroll, jump at notifications, get bombarded by headlines?
Or are you here to laugh with friends, nap in a hammock, love the people you love, witness your own aliveness?

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · Sep 12

Attention shows where your energy is being spent, whether you realize it or not.
Attentiveness focuses on what you want to cultivate, understand, or create.

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · Sep 12

Attention is passive.
It can be hijacked by algorithms, outrage cycles, and slick marketing.
Attentiveness is deliberate.
It chooses what is worthy of your energy.

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · Sep 12

We’re being reduced to lives steered by attention.
We deserve lives grounded in attentiveness.

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · Sep 11

We deserve better.

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · Sep 4

When I talk about quantum manifesting in personal development, I mean this: a leap into the frequency of your uncontainable self.
A stretch beyond what someone else thinks is pragmatic for you.
True Self-Actualization.

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · Sep 4

Today, she is remembered as a pioneering figure who broke racial and gender barriers, often called the “Harriet Tubman of motorcycling.” Her story inspires riders across communities, especially women and people of color, as proof that mobility, adventure, and self-determination can be radical acts.

Bessie Stringfield on her motorcycle

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · Sep 4

During World War II, Bessie worked as a dispatch rider for the U.S. Army, carrying documents across the country on a Harley-Davidson. She was one of very few women, and even fewer Black women, to serve in this way.

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · Sep 4

In Miami, police told Bessie that she wasn’t allowed to ride. She spun figure-eights in front of their captain until they had to let her be.

Colorized image of motorcycle legend Bessie Stringfield

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · Sep 4

Bessie Stringfield rode through the Jim Crow South. Ms. Bessie embarked on her long trips before there was a Green Book detailing safe lodging and services. Segregated hotels turned her away.
She slept at gas stations on her motorcycle.
White men sometimes ran her off the road.

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · Sep 4

Jim Crow tried to keep her in her place. Bessie Stringfield burned rubber on the open road.
She didn’t wait for a path. She made one.

In the 1930s & 40s, Bessie crisscrossed the US on her motorcycle.
8 solo trips.
She had no destination in mind, tossing a penny on a map to decide her route.

Black and white image of legendary motorcyclist Bessie Stringfield stretched across her motorcycle. Below the image reads, “I never was like anybody else.” — Bessie Stringfield
She was the first Black woman to bike solo across the US and began her long trips during Jim Crow era.

Joy Donnell @doitinpublic.bsky.social · Aug 6

Self-compassion makes you unashamed. It clears the shame that never belonged to you. Without shame shaping your self-love, you walk grounded in full self-regard. You finally understand that your presence is your alignment.