Clarity is the cure

#08—the weekly roundup

Happy Friday 🌞

• This week, I’ve been building a personal brand that feels capable of holding my writing and coaching, and figuring out how that translates into a wider audience. I need a shower to wash it all off. But it is nourishing to revisit and rearticulate my values.

• I’ve had the idea of an essay in my head for a while: “TRE: the first 6 months.” After another unbelievable TRE (Trauma/tension release exercises) session, facilitated by a local practitioner, I might push it up the priority list.

• One song on repeat: Over When It’s Over by Lucy Rose. Jazzy, sunny beats.

• One quote I’m still turning over:

We take the first steps out of despair by taking on its full weight and coming fully to ground in our wish not to be here. We let our bodies and we let our world breathe again. In that place, strangely, despair cannot do anything but change into something else, into some other season, as it was meant to do, from the beginning. Despair is a difficult, beautiful necessary, a binding understanding between human beings caught in a fierce and difficult world where half of our experience is mediated by loss, but it is a season, a wave form passing through the body, not a prison surrounding us. A season left to itself will always move, however slowly, under its own patience, power and volition.

—David Whyte, Consolations

• This week, I shared a short essay about how clarity is the cure and writing is the best way to begin:

—Dan