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Jodi Rhoden

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Writer at https://homeandtheworld.substack.com/ ❤️MSW therapist in community mental health. Philly baby!
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Jodi Rhoden @jodirhoden.bsky.social · 3 days
Home + the world number 57: Seeing things.
57. Seeing things.open.substack.com Greetings from the morning after the former president (who is also a presidential candidate) survived an assassination attempt. I don’t need to tell you that this event marks another palpable shift in...
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Jodi Rhoden @jodirhoden.bsky.social · 1 mo
⚔️❤️ Home + the World No. 56: Ordinary Time. On seasons and estrangement: “that acceptance of myself, however absurd I may seem even to myself, is growing in the center of me; even in this, in this chaos and darkness, the shame is moving to the periphery.” Blessed solstice🌞
56. Ordinary time.open.substack.com On solstice and estrangement.
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Jodi Rhoden @jodirhoden.bsky.social · 3 mo
Home + the World No. 50: How to hold a grudge. In your inbox and at link in bio and stories. TLDR: I ❤️ libraries and I ❤️ you
50. How to hold a grudge.open.substack.com Listen to me read this essay: Last week was full of rain. I dreamt that I rode the Greyhound bus all night to Milwaukee. I dreamt that I slept in the wrong place and woke up with the wrong person. I d...
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Jodi Rhoden @jodirhoden.bsky.social · 4 mo
47. A paradise built in hell.open.substack.com My client tells me that she thinks she must be living in hell because—even though she works every day, stays “clean,” takes care of the baby—she can’t even afford to help the little kitten that cries ...
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Jodi Rhoden @jodirhoden.bsky.social · 5 mo
Today’s newsletter: a recipe, a tarot card, and some recommendations. Happy full moon!
46. The Moon and cake.open.substack.com Dear readers, please enjoy an essay-free newsletter today: onward to the recipe, the links and a tarot card. xoxoHome + the World is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my...
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Jodi Rhoden @jodirhoden.bsky.social · 5 mo
Home + the World No. 45, a clearheaded tenderness.
45. A Clearheaded Tenderness.open.substack.com We are trying to live in a clearheaded tenderness— I speak not merely of us, our lives are “moral and ordinary” as the lives of numberless women— I pretend the Hudson is a right-hand margin drawn agai...
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Jodi Rhoden @jodirhoden.bsky.social · 5 mo
Home + the world number 44: To Shake the Sun.
44. To Shake the Sun.open.substack.com Last week, I left my house with my backpack packed for the weekend, and walked towards the subway on my usual commute to work. The morning was cold, but it was Imbolc, (Candlemas, Groundhog Day) and t...
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Jodi Rhoden @jodirhoden.bsky.social · 6 mo
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43. Devotion.open.substack.com In the interest of getting back into a weekly Sunday schedule, and in the spirit of one of our mottos here at Home + the World, “perfect is the enemy of good,” I offer you this imperfect—one mig...
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Jodi Rhoden @jodirhoden.bsky.social · 7 mo
Fast for Gaza Sunrise to Sunset Continuing every Thursday until a permanent ceasefire is called We have had enough. This is a call to fast. Because we have had enough. Learn more and join the fast at bit.ly/fastforgaza
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Jodi Rhoden @jodirhoden.bsky.social · 7 mo
Solstice blessings in an endarkened world. 🕯️❤️‍🔥🕊️https://open.substack.com/pub/homeandtheworld/p/40-in-the-bleak-midwinter?r=adi6y&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
40. In the bleak midwinter.open.substack.com I missed my writing day on Sunday, and rather than accept that fact and post a re-run, in true Mercury retrograde fashion, I scrambled: attempting to write in the stolen, in-between moments of the bus...
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Jodi Rhoden @jodirhoden.bsky.social · 8 mo
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37. Bread and roses.open.substack.com In grief group on Friday, in a casual moment, I told my clients that sometimes my husband laughs in his sleep so exuberantly that his laughing wakes us both up—that I am awakened by his laughter and...
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Jodi Rhoden @jodirhoden.bsky.social · 8 mo
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36. Trying to befriend a crow.open.substack.com Is there anything else you want to make sure we talk about today? I ask her the question I ask at the end of every session. After an hour of talking about her grief, her recovery, her pain, she says: ...
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Jodi Rhoden @jodirhoden.bsky.social · 9 mo
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32. And everyone 'neath their vine and fig tree.open.substack.com I wanted to write about figs and fig season. I wanted to tell you about learning from Keia Mastrianni in her beautiful newsletter Pleasant Living about making sugar cookies with fig leaves, and about ...
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Jodi Rhoden @jodirhoden.bsky.social · 9 mo
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31. Recovery is remembering.open.substack.com Greetings from the mulberry tree dropping its leaves in the wind, greetings from the morning moon, greetings from the smell of shrimp and grits wafting through the screen doors and onto the sidewalk, ...
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Jodi Rhoden @jodirhoden.bsky.social · 10 mo
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30. The ghosts of the Divine Lorraine Hotel.open.substack.com I’ve always been fascinated by cults. To be honest, I’m a prime candidate for cult membership: perpetually spiritually seeking, hardworking, and desperate for approval, it’s a wonder I didn’t ...
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Jodi Rhoden @jodirhoden.bsky.social · 10 mo
Home + the World No. 29: “a harsh and dreadful thing” is live now on Substack! 🙏🏻thank you thank you thank you.
29. A harsh and dreadful thing.open.substack.com One sunny summer afternoon in the early 90’s, in the leafy green suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, my best friend Lexi and I were bored. Maybe it was a day off from our jobs at the Freshëns Yogurt at Cu...
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Jodi Rhoden @jodirhoden.bsky.social · 1 yr
On the uses of anger, and self-respect:
27. Fire signs.open.substack.com To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which, for better or for worse, constitutes self-respect, is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent....
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Jodi Rhoden @jodirhoden.bsky.social · 1 yr
Home + the World No. 26: “You, me, and the Sun”:
26. You, me, and the Sun.open.substack.com My mother used to love to share her method of teaching a baby how to swim: on a day when the Georgia weather is right and the baby is somewhere between three and six months old—throw her in the deep...
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Jodi Rhoden @jodirhoden.bsky.social · 1 yr
Greetings to both of my followers! Please enjoy Home + the World No. 25: Paradise, Please!
25. Paradise, please!open.substack.com Early on Tuesday morning—on my way to work in Center City Philadelphia for the first time in 12 days, after a magical homecoming tour of Southern Appalachia, feeling fresh and grateful, wearing my b...
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