you learn to recognize some people are just passing through your experience, but they are not your people. let them pass through and keep the lessons they teach you.
You are being called to share a level of vulnerability you never have before. You are being called to finally end these cycles and you know it all begins with you.
shift your focus to the people who want to be in community with you. focus on that. build those connections. strengthen those connections. sustain those connections.
phrases like “stay strong,” hold no room for the heaviness some folks are experiencing. instead it meets them with the expectation, that they should push through, no matter what they’re up against. in a lot of cases what people need is more support not more resilience.
I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts and real estate”.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.