Category Archives: letting go

Self-Care is Resistance!!

Posted on May 25, 2017 by Leah Kelley, Ed.D.

I have been thinking about the incredible endurance and perseverance of people who are fighting for human rights, for themselves and for others… Activism is gruelling, slogging, hard work… and it is seemingly unending. It can be hard to step … Continue reading →

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Holding Space as Acceptance, Love, and Self-care: One year later…

Posted on May 14, 2016 by Leah Kelley, Ed.D.

I haven’t written as much on my blog in this last year. I have been busy writing – just not so much in this place. I have been working to shake up my little corner of academia, but sometimes I … Continue reading →

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Holding Space as Acceptance, Love, and Self-care: #AutismPositivity2015

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Leah Kelley, Ed.D.

I think about self-care rather often it seems… though I’ll admit that if I were to define self-care as I thing I do, I don’t actually engage in it quite as regularly as I contemplate it… I think though, in … Continue reading →

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Considering 50: Trajectory of Development, Independence, and Accidental Unfoldings

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Leah Kelley, Ed.D.

Often birthdays are a quiet affair at our house, which is just fine with me, but this October marked my 50th and we ushered it in with a wildly fun Elton John themed party. Seriously, for people who are pretty … Continue reading →

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Blacksmith at the Forge + The Music of Invention

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Leah Kelley, Ed.D.

It is summer, and with summer comes that certain sense of freedom in the days that stretch before us filled with possibility.  It is like that one gift under the tree that hasn’t yet been opened. In all honesty, I … Continue reading →

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Birds singing at night…

Posted on May 20, 2014 by Leah Kelley, Ed.D.

I love this time of year when the days are getting longer and I awaken to birdsong in the early morning… It feels so renewing and full of hope to know that spring has kept its perennial promise and has … Continue reading →

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Advocating: Love not Fear!

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Leah Kelley, Ed.D.

H just shared with me: “In Tales from the Darkside from 1983 – there is one episode where there is a monster in this boy’s room, and he advocates for himself and tells the monster ‘Hey this is my room’ … Continue reading →

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Road Trip, Time, and the End of Summer Moon…

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Leah Kelley, Ed.D.

I haven’t really been able to focus on writing lately, and I am uncertain why this is. I have plenty of ideas and lots to say. In fact, I have a ridiculous number of partially or mostly done posts… but … Continue reading →

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This child does not deserve to be painted with my stress… A Poem

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Leah Kelley, Ed.D.

Today is just one of those days… I’m working hard on slowing it down… letting go of my agenda… responding to what my kid is REALLY saying… and remembering to breathe deeply… because this child does not deserve to be … Continue reading →

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The hardest day… a message to a friend

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Leah Kelley, Ed.D.

I wrote this post this past summer… for a friend. It was written in response to something she had written. It didn’t feel like the right time to release it then, but I sense that perhaps it is useful now: … Continue reading →

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