This has been quite a week filled with news stories that have been draining. I have found the news has put me in fight or flight mode over and over and over again this week. From unjust legal results to officials who won't state that this Nov there will be a peaceful handover of power. This has been a week where projects I should work on I could not focus on and I spent a lot of time finding ways to escape.
This is all to say that we all need to be gentle with ourselves. There is a lot going on right now and many of us are worried about our lives and livelihoods.
Be Gentle With Yourself
Keep Fighting For A Better Day
Be Gentle With Whatever You Are Feeling
Keep Fighting For A More Just World
Be Gentle With Your Successes and Failures
Keep Fighting For Those Who Have Less Privilege Than You
Be Gentle When Breathing Is Hard
Keep Fighting
Be Gentle
Know that if being gentle with yourself leads to you escaping that is ok. As Neil Gaiman put it:
“People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality.”
So read the book, watch the show, disengaged from the social media, write in that journal, dance in your bedroom, drink the water, bake the bread, .... Do whatever you need to do at this moment.
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