Most of the time, when someone’s tone lands wrong or a colleague goes quiet, it has almost nothing to do with you — it’s a window into what they’re carrying, not a verdict on who you are. Learning to actually believe that, in the moment, is a different and much harder thing than knowing it…
Most people I talk to these days are carrying some version of the same weight. The injustice. The climate news that never seems to turn a corner. The wars that keep going. Prices climbing, rules tightening, the general sense that things are moving in a direction nobody voted for and nobody seems able to stop.…