Overcoming Overwhelm: Your Role in Creating Change

What if discovering and expressing our agency could be an entry point for healing a broken world? 

Too often, we convince ourselves that the issues in our communities aren’t ours to fix, the toxicity in our institutions are too entrenched, and the crises in our world are too complex. Far too often, we end up enraged or disengaged. The too-muchness of our daily lives leads us to experience learned helplessness. Intentionally or not, we take disconnection as our posture. We convince ourselves that the problems are too big, so why would we do anything?

It’s true. You can’t fix it all. It’s too much. 

But it’s not true that you can’t do anything. To be human is to have the capacity to act. And you, dear one, are a human. 

The world is not as it should be. What is an action step you can take that reflects the world you want to build? 

Some potential low-fruit starting points? Vote. Show up. Engage. 

The power of each person’s agency is in everyday acts of integrity and courage. What is one thing you can do today to honor your values? How can you celebrate your agency, not as an avenue for fixing everything, but as a way to engage your beloved humanity? 

Be kind to yourself and one another, dear one. It’s a hard and heavy world. It’s also brilliant and beautiful. Let’s not give up on it or one another.