Hello.
Welcome. I’m delighted to be here, that you have found yourself here, and that you and I have crossed internet paths.
Take a moment to check in with yourself — need some water? Did you take your meds? Have you seen the sky today?
I know that there is so much to be overwhelmed by at any given moment— systemic violence and murder of black and brown folks at the hands of the state, the loss of over 573,000 lives in the United States from COVID-19, job and housing insecurity, massive wealth disparity, a culture that expects 110% of us at all times for low wages on one hand and preaches about the importance of “self-care” on the other.
Then there’s us. Me. You. Everything that’s going on in everyday life. The big things: being a member of a marginalized group and facing daily discrimination, losing a loved one, struggling with illness, under- or unemployment, bills, rent, etc... The little things: forgetting your mask in your walk-up building, assholes on the internet, that headache that won’t go away, your partner still hasn’t done that thing they said they’d do and fighting back the urge to ask for the 19th time.
I see you.
I know we don’t know each other yet, but I see you and commend you for doing the thing everyday, trying to get some sleep, then getting up and doing it again. I see you doing the best you can with the inner and external tools and resources you have. This. Shit. Is. Hard. Everyone has different obstacles and struggles, some are familiar to us all as humans living in a body on this planet.* I know I kinda backhanded the idea of self-care just a few sentences ago, but I do recommend doing something today to tend to yourself. Drink some water, go to bed early, scroll on your phone and zone out, eat something your body is craving, scream into a void, cancel plans (or rejoice when plans are cancelled by someone else). If all you have are little things, then enjoy the shit outta those little things.
I promise that my coaching is better than my blogging. Like many of us, I’m only one person doing the best I can with what I have, so it can’t all be primo content. My point is this: I see you, you matter, you deserve support and care.
*Except you, Google AI Machine Learning Bot, lurking in the algorithms. You don’t know the struggle of being a human in a body yet, but someday perhaps you too will know the pain.
