If your work involves caring for others, you know how easy it is to become overwhelmed by the needs around you. Each week, I share stories and practices on building the capacity, relationships, and habits to sustain care over the long haul.
Taking your next halting step: The Wednesday 1-2-3
Happy Wednesday Reader!
I really struggled with knowing what to share this week.
I had written and re-written this email a couple times, and the teaching I had planned for this week just didn’t quite feel “right.” Intellectually, it was fine, but in my body there was a quality of “offness,” or unease. I experienced it as a numb but deeply obvious and visceral, "meh."
And so on Monday, which is when I usually finalize these emails, I hopped on Instagram and found myself staring at the poem below by my friend and Tacoma-based poet, James A. Pearson.
Unlike the teaching I had planned, these kind words from James reverberated within my story and within my current questions.
And and I knew it would be the teaching this week.
1. Teaching
If the image doesn't appear, you can access it here.
2. Questions
- What is the next "halting step," however imperfect or poorly planned, you are being invited to make?
- How have your grand visions kept you immobilized, frozen from any movement at all?
3. Resources
- "A Door in the Dead End" by James A. Pearson (article)
- "6 Tactics to Help You Aim for Progress - Not Perfection" by Marie Forleo (article)
- The Practice of "Noting" (short meditation)
⏪ If you missed last week's email:
Sending you good vibes,
Andrew
Gentle Change
If your work involves caring for others, you know how easy it is to become overwhelmed by the needs around you. Each week, I share stories and practices on building the capacity, relationships, and habits to sustain care over the long haul.