Financial Support for Legal Fees: Safety Amongst the Chaos

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If you are reading this, please know that you are a valued member of my community -- near and far. Community and what it means to be in community with others has shaped and shifted meaning in my life, but in this moment, I am grateful to know community as the folks who fill me up when I am low, laugh with me when the energy is light, and sit in sweet silence when the time is calling for silence. I hold a deep reverence for and with my community.

In the past few months, I have found myself in a serious legal matter. I struggle understanding the legal world as I am a big "feeler". I used to not love this about myself (the "feeling") – but I have come to know and acknowledge and LOVE this feeling superpower !! I have much admiration of and respect for attorneys, navigating this arena where things are moving very fast and the work, at least from my perspective working with an attorney, feels quite tedious and downright exhausting.

The legal matter that I am in has to do with me needing to enforce a protective boundary between myself and another person to protect my imminent physical and emotional safety. I am grateful to be here and share that I am healing -- and moving slowly through the emotions of grief.

This ask is something that I want to get better at -- and I know that with practice, it will get easier. I am asking for help. The professional legal fees that have accrued as a result of needing an attorney are out of my personal finances. Additionally, the time that I have missed work for multiple days in court has resulted in a significant decline in my planned budget for this summer.

The more that this is talked about, the less of an energetic charge the systems at be will hold power over us. I don't want to be "hush hush" anymore about my experiences trying to stand up for myself and going through the legal system. It is isolating, awful, and the worst. I don't want to live in fear anymore. Mostly because I know myself NOT to be a gal ruled by external fear.

But mostly, I want to put down my ingrained need to please others and be perfect. I am here expressing that truthfully, for a moment, I was really hurting. I was really hurting and I'm grateful that I have my community to hold me in a warm embrace when I'm down on the ground.

Any amount is more than enough.

Thank you for being here. <3