2-day Discussion Thread: Your Thoughts, Learnings and Insights
From a ‘Jerry Maguire’ moment to a team of 13 strong members collaborating together to a beautiful response of several writers offering their contributions, we’ve certainly shared deeply this month! The vulnerability, empathy and exchanges humble me.
In this two-day discussion thread, we’d like to exchange our lasting impressions of what we’re taking away from this month-long initiative.
What did you learn? What was most impactful or most memorable for you? What was your main takeaway?
Can you quote an article or person’s contribution that stayed with you long after reading it?
Did you read/hear a specific comment or exchange that resonated with you?
Did you feel this collaboration was an effective way to delve into a topic?
Starts Saturday 28th September. Ends at Midnight on 30th September.
Let’s share our insights and thoughts!
[Please note that due to caregiving priorities, the team members will comment and share their thoughts more than I do. I will be in/out of the hospital this weekend]
Here are a couple of insights from me:
I’ve just proved that I hold tears in high-stress moments when they’re not enabling me to advocate for loved ones. I hold myself in check. All that frustration, adrenalin, and anger at the system gets more and more potent. The gates opened when I returned home around 11.30 pm, and I could feel how potent they were. Like the comment conversations I had with
somehow, the amplitude of emotion has led to (not more ‘effective’) but deeper, richer potency of emotion-chemicals in my tears.
The emotion of grief-love ‘PTSD’ memories of traumatic ambulance rides with Dad were relived as sirens blared and I walked the A&E corridor. BUT those emotions were channelled into primed energy be Mum’s champion. That grief-love
The mindfulness I gained from everyone in this collaboration enabled me to be kinder to myself yesterday, and allow the tears to flow freely. In the dark o’clock of night, the howls could let loose freely.
Thank you Team and everyone who contributed. You helped me yesterday even if you didn’t know it! So, as
Sorry to have missed the discussion window which was due to my work schedule. I very much enjoyed being part of this grand collaboration. As a nurse I felt a little worried about sharing my piece from the other side of healthcare, but the response from my fellow authors was so kind and loving. I could relate to every article I read on some level, mother, child, friend, ect.. and they were all fantastic. Thank you Victoria.
I learned a lot from all the various perspectives and stories around crying! One that I find particularly interesting is from Dr. Amber regarding crying and parenting, especially I am still navigating this new charters and wish to cultivate a healthy relationship with crying for my children!
Hey everyone - I just posted my contribution which is a look at being allergic to your own tears, our reflexive need to hide our pain and what would happen if we stopped hiding. If we asked people to face our suffering and understand the unrelenting nature of chronic illness: https://www.disabledginger.com/p/all-the-tears-i-can-not-cry-and-all
Woohoo I’m first! I’m never first! Just wanted to say I’m so glad you’re doing an open thread where people can share thoughts and what resonated with them.
I will be back to say more when I’m not half asleep - and I’ve almost finished my own contribution about crying and grief.
Sorry to have missed the discussion window which was due to my work schedule. I very much enjoyed being part of this grand collaboration. As a nurse I felt a little worried about sharing my piece from the other side of healthcare, but the response from my fellow authors was so kind and loving. I could relate to every article I read on some level, mother, child, friend, ect.. and they were all fantastic. Thank you Victoria.
I learned a lot from all the various perspectives and stories around crying! One that I find particularly interesting is from Dr. Amber regarding crying and parenting, especially I am still navigating this new charters and wish to cultivate a healthy relationship with crying for my children!
https://open.substack.com/pub/agroomes/p/crying-while-parenting-a-mindful?r=3e7vn&utm_medium=ios
Hey everyone - I just posted my contribution which is a look at being allergic to your own tears, our reflexive need to hide our pain and what would happen if we stopped hiding. If we asked people to face our suffering and understand the unrelenting nature of chronic illness: https://www.disabledginger.com/p/all-the-tears-i-can-not-cry-and-all
Woohoo I’m first! I’m never first! Just wanted to say I’m so glad you’re doing an open thread where people can share thoughts and what resonated with them.
I will be back to say more when I’m not half asleep - and I’ve almost finished my own contribution about crying and grief.
Great job everyone!
Looking forward to seeing what you write on this topic! We're all on our journeys ...
Just posted actually! https://www.disabledginger.com/p/all-the-tears-i-can-not-cry-and-all