The Age of Overwhelm by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky

Author:Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2018-12-11T16:00:00+00:00

Disconnected?

Part of why we care about keeping a close eye on if we are disconnected is that when we are disconnected we cannot reliably gauge if we are doing harm. A residential juvenile corrections worker shared with me, “The kids all say, including my own, that I’m like the Tin Man. I have no heart.”

Time and again, I see that the sequence of harm starts, and can be interrupted, within us. Even while we’re trying to show up and do right by others, care for others, tend to small and large issues locally and out in the world, so often our ability to do that and tend to our blood pressure, and keep an eye on our moods, and generally treat our bodies well . . . falls by the wayside. The next step: Harm arises in our intimate relationships, whether with family members or friends. As author and professor of law Sheryll Cashin stated, “There are consequences for the children of activists.” Finally, often harm arises in our more public selves. Time and again we learn we absolutely cannot show up and help repair the world out there while allowing harm in here. By the time we are the absolute jerk at school or the coworker folks avoid at all costs, a lot of harm has already happened much closer to home.

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