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Reflective Essay: Protect Your Heart

Reflective Essay: Protect Your Heart

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Michael Brennan
Apr 19, 2025
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My Own Heart Deserves Protection
When resistance burns, and love feels impossible.

There’s something I don’t hear often enough in justice spaces, activist circles, or even in the communities of faith I still claim:
My own heart deserves protection.

I don’t mean insulation. I don’t mean self-righteous walls or spiritual escapism. I mean something more of a f…

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