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What I Got Wrong About How The Freedom Movement Could Destroy Itself
What is required is not unity in the fight, but healing of the wounds that caused the fight.
We created this world.
Each of us, as part of the human family, of collective consciousness, created the circumstances with which we now find ourselves.

Michelle Leduc Catlin
Jun 8, 20255 min read


How Do We True Ourselves Up To Who We Really Are?
I cannot coach people to real freedom, to the truth within themselves, unless I am following my own.

Michelle Leduc Catlin
Feb 21, 20255 min read


Why I Put My Career on the Line and Started a Podcast
I started TruedUp to turn our focus from differences to commonality, to explore what moves people to tell the truth even when it's unpopular

Michelle Leduc Catlin
Feb 14, 20254 min read


Dancing With Our Darkness
Most people want to fix our upsets and end up inadvertently making matters worse. Because trying to fix the darkness is a form of resistance

Michelle Leduc Catlin
Feb 12, 20253 min read


Are You Under the Influence? Part 3
Our agency comes from knowing that we’re being influenced, understanding how, and protecting ourselves in the face of it.

Michelle Leduc Catlin
Feb 7, 20253 min read


Are You Under the Influence? Part 2
You may or may not begin to change your mind, but you will begin to be able to see how others might think the way they do.

Michelle Leduc Catlin
Feb 5, 20253 min read


Why Social Media Comments Are Not The Whole Truth
Writing helps us to distinguish our reactions from reasoned response.
It helps to sort triggered emotions that stem from our subconscious.

Michelle Leduc Catlin
Jan 31, 20253 min read


Why Personal Attacks Are Never Personal
If the world occurs as an adversarial place, people will fight.
If the world occurs as a scary place, people will act out of fear.

Michelle Leduc Catlin
Jan 22, 20253 min read


On Silence
Where could communication grow in the absence of speaking? How would you practice listening when no one is talking? What might you hear?

Michelle Leduc Catlin
Dec 24, 20241 min read


What is the Point of You?
What the world needs now more than ever is creative solutions — and curiosity is the gateway.

Michelle Leduc Catlin
Nov 29, 20243 min read


What the #$@% is Spiritual Hormesis?
It’s easier to live in a haze of alcohol, weed or Netflix, or bury ourselves in work, than to confront the uncomfortable bits of our lives.

Michelle Leduc Catlin
Nov 22, 20243 min read


The Power of Not Knowing
There has never been a better time to put aside our assumptions about the "others."

Michelle Leduc Catlin
Nov 15, 20243 min read

Listen To Michelle
TruedUp is an inquiry into how we align with our values and principles and stand up for what we believe in.
How do we true ourselves up to what really matters, to the difference we’re here to make, and who we really are?
Michelle Leduc Catlin sits down with truth-tellers and freedom fighters for insightful and inspiring conversations that invite us to be the change.
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