notes on care, systems and the long work...
I was chatting with my partner about the meaning of the term “authenticity,” in the sense of how we, as creator industry people, use the term, and how someone without the onus to commodify it uses the word. We have family in healthcare, for example, and specifically with ties to Indigenous communities, who use authentic in its dictionary definition form. Authentic to the land, authentic to the…
I needed to break the title alliteration and also talk about when the edge isn’t the start or end but the other side (it’s a möbius strip). I was recently certified as a resilience coach. It was an unexpected but welcome work/life milestone; it felt good to complete a course, reflect and formalise a capability I’d been putting time and effort on for years at this point. I like the material as it…
This past weekend, I attended the first of an intimate, three-part "professional" workshop with some folks in a similar life phase as me. When I say this is the first time in years that it felt like I was doing something for myself, unencumbered by a set outcome, goal or expectation, I do not exaggerate. I signed up out of curiousity, I prepared nothing, and when the session came and went, I left…
Have we always been hard-wired to reactivity? Mid-way through this decade and some of my life choices have lead me to question why I’ve (stupidly or naively) chosen, time-and-again, the path of “just plaster it, we’ll deal with the real issue later.” While experience and maturity has created space for the wisdom of preventative thinking, it pains me to think of how many aspects of our lives we…