Notes on living through troubled times
I use this space to grapple with some of the questions, challenges, contradictions and possibilities I encounter in my work around culture change, embodied resilience and collective care.
Who are we choosing to be?
On the wave of trans-exclusion in the charity sector and questions for my fellow cis women about how we are going to show up in this moment.
Turning towards each other when things get hard
On the instinct to withdraw when we’re not okay, the essential need to stay connected when things fall apart and the skills we can learn to resist isolation, even under pressure.
Resisting the culture of wilful forgetting
On the story of ‘peace’ being told about the tenuous ceasefire in Gaza and how the culture of forgetting, erasure and rewriting distorts our sense of reality.
Notes on exhaustion
Why exhaustion is an appropriate response to the times we’re in and the message(s) it might be telling us.
How to talk about the god-awful times we’re in with family, friends and colleagues
Why it’s hard to talk about the political reality we’re in, how isolation deepens hopelessness and ways in which we can practise being with it together.
Learning to better cope with unjust conditions is not resilience – it leads to burnout
On the fallacy of meritocracy, why resilience is an inherently collective issue and dancing in the streets of London in protest against the far right.
It’s not about the mistakes you make but how you respond
Thoughts on perfectionism as a form of dehumanisation and conflict avoidance and how we are our own best practice ground to shift how we navigate our fallibility.