One of the great things about the way that we work is that, because we always involve our own experience as a guide, we end up being friends with the people we work with. Robyn and I, for example, record podcasts and discuss client projects, and we also share articles, stories about our children, and cat memes. Lots of cat photos.
When Robyn sent me an article from the Guardian this week about the impact of crumbling structures, I felt like it might be an important topic for the newsletter. You can read it here. In sum, it outlines a concept that being “normal” feels weird in a time of so much change.
We see this a lot. People who feel bad that they still have a job when others don’t. People who spend a lot of time posting complaints and warnings on social media. People who are working harder because they don’t know when their grant will end or if they will have funding for co-workers to help. It’s a lot. And, at the same time, we’re allowed to be “normal,” whatever normal is in a moment like this. Our guilt about being okay isn’t as helpful as we might like it to be. Two contradictory things can be true at once: life is hard and I’m okay. I often present to groups that, from a zoomed out perspective, someone is healing from something 100% of the time. It doesn’t stop life. It’s part of it.
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