Emotional Labor

Sometimes, an invitation to someone else to explain something really invites them to do emotional labor for you. Too often, that emotional labor is given without acknowledgement or compensation.

Whose emotional labor are you relying upon today? How can you repay them for that investment in you?

Join

It is a powerful thing to invite someone else to join you in community, in relationship. It is a powerful thing to be invited to join others.

Reflect on your experiences of being asked to be a part of something. What did it feel like to be included?

Open

How do we stay open to new experiences, especially when the world has made us weary? We are invited today to try something new–maybe a new book, or a new food, or maybe something more adventurous even.

Try something new today.

Vulnerability

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it is to invite others fully into my experience (and to accept invitations into others’ experiences). Extending that kind of invitation can be a huge source of connection and witnessing — but also can feel really hard and vulnerable.

How can you create safer containers for each of us to practice extending those kinds of deep invitations into self and experience?