Reflective Society

Getting all geared up for this Saturday. It’s the last of the season and we are going out with a bang! There will be several blocks of incredible vendors, costumes and trick or treating at booths!! I’ll have a big old bowl of treats and some reflective tricks up my sleeve!✨ And I’m doubling up with the talented .watts.ceramics and his adorable and spooky mud buddies!!🎃👻👾 ⁣
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I’d love to see you out there!
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Also, please help spread the word about this community and artist-led event, it’s events like this that make my heart sing✨✨✨I am so impressed and inspired by what and have created this year and so grateful to be a part of it!✨💜💜💜

Birthday week glow-out sale!! I’m celebrating through the rest of the month (Sept 26th-30th) with 15% off my entire site, no code necessary!! ⁣⁣
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🌟There are just two reflective knit hats left from last year and they are both listed. (If you’ve been here a while you know that while I make those hats as fast and plentiful as I can, they always sell quick during the winter months!)⁣
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🌟Some of my small pins will be retiring from the site soon. If there is a certain one you have had your eye on you may want to nab it now!
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🌟Bandanas and shoelaces are fully stocked! ⁣
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🌟Cuffs and belts are discounted to 30%!! ⁣
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And now a little birthday story time with CW: mental health/bipolar⁣⁣
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This year I am really feeling my brightest, glowy-est self on my solar return. In true Libra fashion fabulous adornments keep finding me (mostly for free or cheap), I feel like the world is crushing on me and I feel more energized, extroverted and balanced than usual. ⁣⁣
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Often, when I feel my fullest self I get nervous. Like many, I hold myself back, feel doubtful and make myself small. Fear creeps in. ⁣⁣
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As someone with bipolar disorder, feelings of self-grandiosity have accompanied some of my most detached (manic) moments in my life. I’ve learned to live my life checking myself. Was that self-confidence or dellusion? Was I in my zone of genius or was I checking out of reality ? Was I advocating for myself or unaware of other’s needs?
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I have been pondering these dualities lately as I process old stories through EMDR therapy. When is self-reflection self-destruction? When is introspection an internal interigation? I am 10 years into my diagnosis and I am finding that some of of my old self-awareness techniques have slid into self-policing and self gaslighting. And you know what? Those tactics don’t help heal the wounds, the relationships or the world. ⁣⁣
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I am grateful to my birthday season and my recent life changes for bringing joy and ease front and center. Cheers to leaning into those sparkly moments without trying to dim my own shine. To marinating in good feelings until that is what feels most familiar, constant and true💜🌟✨

I’d goat anywhere for you!⁣
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Have you herd? Reflective Society is having its debuts in my home state of Massachusetts! Tomorrow!! 🎉🎉🎉⁣
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Find these bright reflective bandanas (washed, don’t worry) and my reflective pins and jewelry at the Wake Up the Earth Festival in Jamaica Plain!! The event is out together and the Parade starts at 10:30/11, vending and food and festivities in the park outside the Stonybrook T stop 12-5pm. I can’t wait to see you! 🎪✨✨✨⁣
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Special thanks to Lincoln, Benton and Freckles and who were kind enough to deep it up for the single silliest RS photoshoot to date. And to as assistant goat herder and distributer of treats🥦🥕

Ps. I take Covid precautions seriously and I will be testing before the event, masking for the duration and practicing regular sanitizing throughout😷⁣
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