New Year, New World.
photo caption: summer solstice in the Scottish Highlands, 2024 *January 1st, 2025 Update:* together we raised $730 for Many Lands Mutual Aid and Rural Organizing and Resilience! The winners are: #1: Khalil, #2 Victor, #3 Oki, #4 Oki, and Keia won two!, and #5 is Zoe....
Home + the World.
Home + The World is an occasional newsletter by Jodi Rhoden featuring personal essay, recipes, links and recommendations about finding home: within ourselves and in the world around us. Home + the World explores the ways we become exiled: through trauma, addiction,...
The Quitting Year
In 2020, that infamous year, I did a lot of quitting. In February, on the heels of quitting drinking, I quit my job at a local social justice non-profit. It just seemed to me that, after doing such a difficult, life-affirming thing as getting sober, there was no time...
Hot Cider, Hallowed Souls, and Sweet Potato Pie
Today is November 1st, known as Samhain, All Saints Day, or Dia de los Muertos, depending on your spiritual and cultural orientation. Last night, Halloween, was a bright, beautiful full moon in Taurus. We put out candy for the few intrepid trick-or-treaters, then we...About Jodi Rhoden
Jodi Rhoden, LCSW, CAADC is a Philadelphia-based therapist, writer, and organizer. Jodi earned her Master of Social Work degree and Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor license in 2022 and her LCSW in 2025. Jodi works as a therapist specializing in attachment, addiction, and trauma healing. Jodi is the founder and former owner of Short Street Cakes in West Asheville, and the author of Cake Ladies: Celebrating a Southern Tradition (Lark Books, 2011).