Hey friends. Know any men who have been impacted by layoffs? Who are wrestling with uncertainty at work? Maybe some financial precocity?
I'm creating a few pop-up men's support circles for men who are in these positions. Feel free to share this with them.
The link is in the bio as well as in my stories.
Let me know if you've any questions!
#layoffs #menscircles #jobsearch #jobsearch2025 #menswork
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What if our grief was a nurse log.
This I believe to be true: we won't get to the peace we seek using the methods we have tried.
We need something new.
And so, I ask again: what if our grief was a nurse log?
How do we live as an archipelago?
Not as isolated islands, but as connected? In community?
Well, the quality of listening that we experience impacts the things we may or may not say.
Our capacity for vulnerability, empathy, understanding is related to the space between us - the relational space.
What is it to slow down and tend to the experience that is emerging *between* us?
Not simply our own, unique experience (though that's important too), but the shared experience.
The experience unfolding in that mysterious *third* thing.
This is the field of relating with others. It is a field that we share. A field that comprises so much more of our lives than we realize.
This is living not as islands, but as an archipelago. Recognizing the connection and the inevitability of our relating.
This is tending to that field.
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How we relate to ourselves matters.â
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The quality of our relating. The level of care. â
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The willingness to accept where we are for what it is - without judgement or criticism. Without overlaying shame.â
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Taking the time to check in with the one person who is guaranteed to be with us in every situation.â
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That matters.â
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How I relate to myself matters.â
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How you relate to yourself matters.â
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Indeed, if that's the *only* thing we end up tending to today, well, that's probably pretty good.â
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And . . . there's more, isn't there?â
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After all no *person* is an island. â
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No, we're a freakin' archipelago.â
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We'll explore relating to ourselves and more at our annual retreat at the @whibey_institute this October 6th - 9th.â
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When it's time to find just the right place: where the trees and the water meet.
When it's time to sit and think and feel and write.
When it's time to release into the water.
When it's time to pick up the new tome from a favorite writer - Sophie Strand aka @cosmogyny - (offering gratitude to whichever spirits ensured that it would arrive a bit early).
When the end of the week makes it possible to feel everything that's unfolded in the preceding days.
When all that's left is gratitude.
I needed to go to the park to decompress.
I hiked up into the woods a ways, put my journal and water bottle down on the ground, and laid down next to a log.
The ground held me. I asked the trees for some support.
I let what was moving through me sluff off into the earth (well, some of it, anyway).
When I got back to my car, I saw that Iâd picked up an unintended hitchhiker.
We had a little moment, me and this baby slug.
Then I released them to a log near my car.
All of this to say: go into the trees. Itâll help.
When do you check in?
I pretty much begin every group I do with a check-in so we can get a sense of how we are all showing up, and understand whatâs in the room.
It also helps us make a shift into the container of the group.
It may not sound huge, but it is.
The difference is palpable.
Also, Monday, February 27th, at 6pm in Georgetown, Jordan and I are hosting our fourth Monday group.
@seattlemenscircle
Link in bio.
Check it out.
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