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Gareth Walley's avatar

I resonate with this massively. Becoming post-tragic and being emotionally resilient in a world of broken promises and ruins is the only way to keep your head above water! Thank you for your writing, it's a joy to see others here on the other side of the curtain!

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Gareth Walley's avatar

To clarify, for me "softness" is resilience. Hard things are brittle and shatter under stress ;)

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Isabelle Drury's avatar

love the framing of softness as resilience :) we gotta be soft and squidgy to be resilient!

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Gareth Walley's avatar

Exactly! When building structures that are resilient to earth tremors and wind stress, they are designed to bend. This was a lesson learned from nature, as trees aren't rigid structures. We should learn to bend rather than break under the stress of changes that are inevitably coming!

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Susan Harley's avatar

This question about humanity was on my mind today. After listening to Caroline Myss saying humans have always been & always will be violent.

I share your approach, thanks for so eloquently articulating it 🙏

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Isabelle Drury's avatar

really glad you resonate with it, susan. <3

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Gregory Pettys's avatar

breathe and smile. we will live again... thank you for this.

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Isabelle Drury's avatar

exactly :)

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Gia Mora's avatar

Sending squishy hugs from across the pond

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Isabelle Drury's avatar

oh girl to you too

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Leonard Neamtu's avatar

I felt this way so many times. I'm still figuring a way to better deal with it all, but it got easier. Maybe that's the secret, and some sort of resilience has emerged?

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Isabelle Drury's avatar

I think so, i think we get used to things slowly!! and then suddenly we can deal with them.

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