What if *this* could be amazing?
TL;DR: The first step must be to calm our nervous systems; to return to center. From that grounded place, we can take longer-term actions. Second, we can cultivate resilience practices to support us amid turbulent times: taking a rest. Gardening. Spending time with nature, art, music, reading. Third: we have to build community, to invest in relatio... See more
Brian Stout • Building at the speed of belonging... surviving the speed of catastrophe
Ultimately, we learned (or at least some of us did) that if we look after each other, we can get through these kinds of things together. We learned the lesson that humans learn again and again about ourselves (and seem to need to learn again and again): that “the worst of times can often bring out the best in us.”56 We learned that resilience isn’t
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The intersecting catastrophes unspooling all around us don’t offer an escape from reality, but an intensification of it. So we have a choice: (1) Accept this reality. Accept the full toxic soup of conditions we’ve put ourselves in, as well as the thick, messy, profoundly human dramas playing out amidst it. And awaken to the burdens — of grief, hope
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