“Did I do all of those things because I really wanted to, or because setting and achieving little goals got me through the stress?”
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Recipe For Losing Your Voice
How to Lose Your Creative Voice Preheat the environment with a year-long global pandemic. 2. Mix together despair, grief, and self-doubt. 3. Add several dashes of social media. The seasoning will become extra strong if you combine vitriol directed at your profession (teacher), and criticism directed at your identity (mom). Fold in frightening news coverage. […]
Let’s Think About How We Will Heal
I’ve been reading a lot about the “pandemic wall” lately, and it makes sense that we’re all hitting it now. We’ve been in this for nearly a year. During that time, we’ve collected stress that hasn’t been released. We’ve held in emotions that couldn’t be expressed in small spaces. We’ve dealt with waves of grief […]
I Hope We’ve Learned
It’s hard to imagine, but someday this pandemic will be over. Someday, the world will open back up and we’ll be deposited back in the busy stream of life. What do you hope we’ve collectively learned when that time comes? I hope we’ve learned to take things slower. Do less, and think more. Cut out […]