Kindling
Care work, redefined.
Unsubscribes. Here's why I trust them.
I don't look at them. I never have.
When someone leaves this list, that's a boundary, and I trust it completely. I don't treat it as a verdict or go hunting for the sentence that lost them. They made a choice about where their attention goes, and that's theirs to make.
But I can definitely feel ...
Jun 22, 2026
How We Get Paid: On care work, fee-for-service, and the costs we don't talk about
On care work, fee-for-service, and the often unspoken costs of clinical work
This is not a guide for fixing your practice. It's not a productivity framework. And it's not an argument for coping better inside conditions that may be doing you harm.
This is an inquiry.
It asks a different question...
by Hilary Katherine Kinavey —
Jun 22, 2026
The empty chair
In the early days of Center for Body Trust, before I had the structural language for any of it, Dana and I used to teach a version of this to anyone who'd sit still long enough to hear it.
We'd watch people — smart, careful, deeply good clinicians — stand at the edge of something they wanted to ...
Jun 22, 2026
Kindling