when we turn toward one another

Sometimes, it is hard to feel like you are making an impact, especially when you are living or working in a space that feels overwhelming or unhealthy or like it will never change.

I am often confronted with some version of this question: I am trying to do this work, to live in my values and to choose courage, and it feels impossible to do it within this org/system/family/policy/world/etc.

Today, I was reminded that my answer to this wrestle stands.

I focus on what is in my control. The people in front of me. The relationships that I can affect with my courage because those connections are what create ripples of change. And I know that changes everything eventually.

Sure, it feels too slow and it is hard and it is the power I have.

I am so grateful to spend some time with some of the people who have walked through courage training with me today on our Alumni Accountability Check-In. It felt so good to be together.

Because when we turn toward one another we walk one another through it and home.