You do not have to be ready, an expert, or always be sure in order to share yourself or your ideas with the world. Imperfect selves and work are how we get to be the people (and have the lives) that we want. You’re going to get things wrong sometimes. You’re going to stumble, screw up, or just generally look like an amateur. I am too, and that’s the only really brave way to live life. By showing up anyway. But how do we actually do that?
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Why was I so afraid of making mistakes?
It all comes down to the same reason any of us ever do anything, whether it was in high school or now: because of a story I believed.
A “story” is a piece of cultural conditioning, a construct we’ve bought into, or simply a thought that we’ve decided is true about ourselves and life.
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What Rehab Taught Me About Surviving a Pandemic
Watching life turn upside down has reminded me of another time my world crashed down around me: going to rehab for drug addiction.
Though I’m the first to admit that dumpster fire was entirely my own doing, I can’t help but see some clear parallels between surviving that burn and this one.
Dare I say it, but rehab prepared me for this. And in case it can aid you to, I’d like to share a few parallels I’ve observed.
Privileged Problems: How to Deal with "Small" Issues Amidst a Global Pandemic (and Other Crises)
People are dead…and we’re pissy about not going outside?
How dare we mourn our inconveniences when there were whole lives lost, right?
And yet whether we shut down the conversation or not, a most definitive frustration, negativity, and general feeling of depression exists among many people who (one could argue) have “no right” to feel anything but grateful for what they DO have. How do we navigate privileged problems?
Friday the 13th: How to Navigate an (Actually) Scary World Amidst a Pandemic, Uncertainty, and our Future Ghosts
The presence of COVID-19 all over our world has made an average week feel like an apocalyptic movie – our grocery stores have been ransacked, our travel has been cancelled, and America’s dad Tom Hanks has even been diagnosed. How do we balance staying informed with feeling overwhelmed? And what do our “future” ghosts have to do with handling the current (and often scary) situation at hand?