My therapist once said, you have more than one purpose. It helped me look inside myself a little longer and deeper. As someone also sick - this felt like asking each part of my body what it wants to do, and what it can. Evaluating what the gaps are which I know you know already. it helped me find the things that had the least amount of gaps - and work towards them. I worked towards ease - towards honesty, vulnerability, towards making myself as much in need, as I know I can be. n i think the purposes I found were not just work related, but relationships related, loving myself, taking meds on time, learning to set boundries and capacities and somewhere it helped my community also talk about their own needs. I think purposes can be found in places where there is ease.
Darshita, I've read this over and over again since you posted, thinking about ease as a doorway into something new. To invite ease as a place from which things can grow instead of a place from which to feel guilt and shame--of which there is so much, in these bodies that can't (and shouldn't) live up to the expectations capitalist productivity. Moving toward sweetness. Thank you.
Community, Community, Community! Yes! With a capital “C”. This is what keeps me going. Whenever I find myself lost and staring at the wall, I remember all those in The Wee Sparrow's creative community and how they get up, show up and keep creating despite it all. The world is on fire and being live streamed constantly. It's overwhelming. We weren't made to function in this way. Our brains weren't built to cope with this overload. For overwhelm I seek solace in nature and poetry. Words. Sweet words. Writing feels like resistance needed now more than ever. I'm so grateful for you, dear Ashna. ❤️
My therapist once said, you have more than one purpose. It helped me look inside myself a little longer and deeper. As someone also sick - this felt like asking each part of my body what it wants to do, and what it can. Evaluating what the gaps are which I know you know already. it helped me find the things that had the least amount of gaps - and work towards them. I worked towards ease - towards honesty, vulnerability, towards making myself as much in need, as I know I can be. n i think the purposes I found were not just work related, but relationships related, loving myself, taking meds on time, learning to set boundries and capacities and somewhere it helped my community also talk about their own needs. I think purposes can be found in places where there is ease.
Darshita, I've read this over and over again since you posted, thinking about ease as a doorway into something new. To invite ease as a place from which things can grow instead of a place from which to feel guilt and shame--of which there is so much, in these bodies that can't (and shouldn't) live up to the expectations capitalist productivity. Moving toward sweetness. Thank you.
Community, Community, Community! Yes! With a capital “C”. This is what keeps me going. Whenever I find myself lost and staring at the wall, I remember all those in The Wee Sparrow's creative community and how they get up, show up and keep creating despite it all. The world is on fire and being live streamed constantly. It's overwhelming. We weren't made to function in this way. Our brains weren't built to cope with this overload. For overwhelm I seek solace in nature and poetry. Words. Sweet words. Writing feels like resistance needed now more than ever. I'm so grateful for you, dear Ashna. ❤️
As I am you and the whole Wee Sparrow community!