This weekend, war was chosen again—with devastating ease. In moments like this, many of us feel the pull to harden, to turn off the news, to numb out. But what if the most courageous act we can offer isn’t disconnection—it’s presence?

In this raw and timely letter, intuitive coach and writer Tonyalynne Wildhaber explores how emotional resilience, grief literacy, and revolutionary tenderness offer us a path forward when force and domination are once again chosen on the world stage. What if our culture’s obsession with control is really a fear of intimacy? What if war is a symptom of our refusal to stay with what hurts?

This letter is a call to root before we rise. It is a reckoning, a prayer, and a reminder that real power comes not from numbness—but from staying soft when the world tries to harden us.

Read the full letter: To the One Who’s Still Willing to Feel in a Country That Chooses Force

There are days when the air itself feels heavier, when the weight of what is happening around us presses into the quiet spaces of our lives. The world fractures, and somehow, you are expected to continue — working, tending, loving, showing up as if the ground beneath you is not shifting…