Fascism requires a compliant population to take hold. This month’s blog is about getting to know my fawning, or compliant, part, and developing a relationship with it, so it no longer has to work so hard, allowing me to lead more often with courage and compassion.

When we befriend our fawning parts, we may find that our compulsion to blindly comply with authority out of fear begins to dissipate. We then become one fewer body through which fascism can spread. Our inner work expands outward from personal benefit into a contribution to a collective transformation of consciousness. We become, as they say, the change we want to see in the world. This is a kind of internal activism we all have access to, that can yield sustainable external change.