Exhaustion - let’s talk about it...
It’s been a year of this pandemic. Describing it is pointless - we all know what it’s been. It’s been a collective experience.
We are collectively exhausted - and working parents *especially moms* are the most exhausted humans I’ve ever seen in my life.
Me? I was doing fine for a really long time and then just last month, I hit a wall. I feel like we all did.
I am extremely fortunate - I have my own company filled with my favorite people and really, really good clients and a support network of other female entrepreneurs I can talk to.
It’s still too much.
And I’m optimistic and excited - we were shortlisted for an award for work we did last year *during covid* and we have new projects in innovative spaces.
The excitement helps. The great people around me definitely helps.
But it’s being outdoor with my horse that helps the most. Getting my boots dirty and finding harmony with such a powerful, regal creature re-centers me daily. She stays in the Now and so I must do so, too.
And in those beautiful moments when it’s just she and I, breathing, being, connecting on an energetic level, when my mind calms into quiet and I feel total inner peace and freedom from everything in our man-made world.
In that sense of being, the fluidity of feeling, in her quiet wisdom, she role-models the power of feminine leadership to me - the life-giving flow of emotion, empathy and sensory awareness.
And I recharge.
Many of us have found deeper aspects of ourselves during this last year. Have moved from cities to rural farms, have grown gardens and learned to bake bread. Have learned to be quiet with ourselves during the chaos.
We must now bring this newly-re-found remembrance of what’s most important to us into our work culture.
We must create organizations where our well-being is prioritized, where the flow between get and get is reciprocal. Where the Whole Human is honored and encouraged to thrive. Where money and resources are a part of that soulfully-healthy experience and not mutually exclusive to it.
This is #consciouscapitalism and this is #thefutureofwork
Because anything else is archaic in light of what we have learned ❤️💸❤️
