Issue 06: Goodbye to all that

...and how can THIS be soft and easy

Was anyone ever so young? I am here to tell you that someone was.
-Joan Didion

I promised my career coach that I will write the next issue of this newsletter before the end of the year. So here it is, on the very last day of 2022. Giving me hell, taunting me almost - an appropriate conclusion of the year since that’s exactly what most of 2022 has felt like for me.

I can’t remember when it got so hard and what about it - specifically - made me struggle. But the truth is - I did. None of it felt easy. None of it felt soft. I had to work at getting out of bed more days than I care to remember. And I had to make myself go and do. I felt like I was pushing, pushing, pushing - for so much of it. I felt like I was trying to run through mud.

A lot of it was work related. A lot of it was the complicated reality of being a parent and a spouse while also trying to be an independent human being. But A LOT of …