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Trump Invaded Venezuela. Your Overwhelm Is One of His Objectives.

Chaos → Exhaustion → Control. That's his strategy. Here's how to interrupt it.

Jan 3 • Paul T Shattuck, MSW, PhD

December 2025

The Skills We Built While Trump Tried to Break Us

We didn't just endure this year. We learned skills, clarity and resolve they didn't mean to teach us – and these are things they can’t take from us.

Dec 28, 2025 • Paul T Shattuck, MSW, PhD

Disorientation and Navigation: Words of the Year for 2025

Trump's strategy is daily disorientation—change reality overnight, repeat. Here's what navigating daily disorientation taught us about resistance and…

Dec 20, 2025 • Paul T Shattuck, MSW, PhD

Two Practices for Surviving MAGA Dinners and Lonely Nights During Holidays

Whether you're facing a table full of MAGA relatives or an empty apartment, overwhelm wants the same thing: for you to disappear. Don't let it win.

Dec 19, 2025 • Paul T Shattuck, MSW, PhD

You're Not Failing. You're Being Targeted. Behind the Scenes on the Making of the "Staying Steady" toolkit

Of course you're struggling. That's by design. Here's a toolkit for interrupting overwhelm and building capacity.

Dec 12, 2025 • Paul T Shattuck, MSW, PhD

34:13

You're Not Failing. You're Under Assault. 8 Reasons Clearly Naming Trump's Tactics Builds Resistance.

Shame, fog, exhaustion — these aren't personal failures. They're intended effects. Naming the tactics that produce them gives you ground to stand on.

Dec 11, 2025 • Paul T Shattuck, MSW, PhD

Trump Wants You at Your Breaking Point—Here's How to Avoid Reaching the Edge

Listen now | Guided Audio Strategic Mindfulness Practice to Stay Steady: For detecting overload before it takes you down

Dec 8, 2025 • Paul T Shattuck, MSW, PhD

21:59

Stay Steady: 7 Ways to Interrupt Overwhelm and Build Capacity Under Authoritarianism

Recognize your reactive patterns. Stop spiraling. Reach steadiness. Protect connection.

Dec 4, 2025 • Paul T Shattuck, MSW, PhD

The Democrats Have a Superweapon. They Use It to Shake Us Down.

Endless fundraising texts are engineered to manipulate you. How to stay steady when it's coming from your own side.

Dec 3, 2025 • Paul T Shattuck, MSW, PhD

8 Contradictions of Life During Trumpism - And How to Hold Them Without Breaking

You're not failing, you're holding space for paradoxes most people avoid. Here's how to stop treating the disorientation as weakness and start…

Dec 2, 2025 • Paul T Shattuck, MSW, PhD

November 2025

Trump's Lies Exhaust Us on Purpose: 10 Moves to Stay Clear on What’s True

You're not losing your mind—you're under epistemic attack. Here's how to protect your grip on reality and humanity without getting cynical or…

Nov 29, 2025 • Paul T Shattuck, MSW, PhD

What We've Built in Ten Months of Resisting Authoritarian Assault

This isn't just a blog. It's a maker space for tools of civic resilience. Here's where we're headed next.

Nov 26, 2025 • Paul T Shattuck, MSW, PhD

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