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Dear Employee - you are not necessarily fine simply because you still have a job. You are not necessarily ok because others are sick and dying. This whole situation is F& #39;d and we are all experiencing loss. We are all suffering./1
We are grieving the world we used to know. We are mourning the routines that anchored us, our sense of safety, our understanding of how life is supposed to go./2
We& #39;re not simply working from home. Let& #39;s name this what it is: collective trauma. When we do that, we can work through it together without all of the meta-emotion of feeling bad about feeling bad./3
Viktor Frankl said that "suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the & #39;size& #39; of human suffering is absolutely relative." As @IamDavidKessler says, "the worst loss is always your loss."/4
As @BreneBrown says, we shouldn& #39;t compare suffering but we can suffer with perspective. We can leverage our own emotions to build emotional drawbridges ( @GlennonDoyle) with others./5
So dig into how much this utterly sucks for you. Display emotional courage by resisting the temptation to maintain a facade. When my teammates ask how I& #39;m doing, my new response is either "I& #39;m doing fine... except for everything" or "Surviving, which is the goal right now."/6
Leverage that insight to reach in to your colleagues. When you ask them how they& #39;re doing, make sure you have enough time to really hear their answers. And resist judging how others show up - we all grieve differently./7
This virus has catapulted us into a fluid dance between self and others: From an epidemiological perspective, we must hold ourselves to account in order to protect our broader community./8
