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As time passed, I grew to know many of the people around me better than they knew themselves, but in that process, I lost me.
What started as a friendship turned into a huge crush, then a total love affair. Never underestimate the power of being seen—it’s exhausting to keep working against yourself when someone truly sees you and loves you. Some days his love felt like a gift. Other days
“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path.
Art has the power to render sorrow beautiful, make loneliness a shared experience, and transform despair into hope.
Music, like all art, gives pain and our most wrenching emotions voice, language, and form, so it can be recognized and shared.
It’s the sharing of art that whispers, “You’re not alone.”
I can only conclude our world is in a collective spiritual crisis.
our quest for true belonging requires that we brave some serious wilderness.
pain will find a way to make itself known.
But what we know now is that when we deny our emotion, it owns us.
This experience is also when our team started to understand how important it is for us to build a culture that supports true belonging. If leaders really want people to show up, speak out, take chances, and innovate, we have to create cultures where people feel safe—where their belonging is not threatened by speaking out and they are supported when they make the decision to brave the wilderness, stand alone, and speak truth to bullshit.
implementing civility standards and enforcing them leads to higher-performing and better-functioning teams.
A strong leader pulls players toward a deep belief in themselves.
But what’s tough about the inclusive language movement is when people turn using the right language into a weapon to shame or belittle people.
Even tools of civility can become weaponized if the intention is there.
But it also requires that we stay vulnerable, and that’s hard to do when we turn words into weapons.
