Calling ourselves back to each other
A free Aries season co-journaling space & conversation
✨CALLING ALL EXHAUSTED, GRIEVING, OVERWORKED CREATORS, FACILITATORS, + MAGICIANS✨
A few weeks ago I posted a story on my instagram that asked: “Who else is f***ing exhausted today/this year?” and my DMs were flooded.
So many of us are deeply exhausted, myself included.
The exhaustion we are experiencing is collective.
And so many of us feel/are alone or isolated in our caregiving work, or our creative work, our work of holding and tending to community…. or often all three. No wonder it feels like too much. It just is.
Our isolation and our overwhelm are also collective, and are colonial projects that are at the very least centuries in the making.
As Kurt Vonnegut famously shared:
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
And, community isn’t just created out of thin air. It takes effort. It takes muscle. It takes discomfort. It takes time. As I shared in my last newsletter, not doing it alone is a muscle.
And, not doing it alone doesn’t mean have to mean overriding our exhaustion. It can mean actually honoring it.
“Not doing it alone can look as simple as calling up a friend, having a community dialogue or practice, opening space for feedback, or simply remembering that we are supported by a rich web of life--the brilliance of our universe, bodies, ancestors--and finding ways to lean on these supports.
Not doing it alone doesn't mean we don't also get to have solitude, in fact it often means we find ways to protect each others solitude and rest. Solitude is not the same as trying to take on something that actually requires an ecosystem of support. And often, being in "solitude" isn't a place of disconnection from the world or being "alone", but a place of re-connection to ourselves, our breath, our bodies, our ancestors, the more than human world, what inspires and enlivens us.”
An exercise...
If these questions feel supportive, take even a few minutes to sit with them:
What are some of the things you feel deeply called to do that simultaneously feel most impossible right now?
Where are some of the places in your life that you are trying to do it alone?
Where do those overlap?
What would it look like for you to try something else, to try not doing it alone? To take even one tiny step in that direction? and then another?
Imagine what it might feel like, in as vivid detail as possible, if you found yourself truly supported in facing these impossibilities. How does it feel?
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I have been a teacher for the past 10 years, and I’m going through one of the most intense seasons of change. Much of my worth has been tied up in my work, work I value so much but can no longer sustain. Your piece really resonated with me and connects so deeply to the rest and reorientation I’m doing in my life right now. I love the title of your post…Sometimes we call ourselves back to ourselves in solitude, while other times it’s a group project.