That meme is great. You could sell a few tee shirts with that meme on them, but not many I'm afraid.
I'm afraid generally. It's weird how THEIR cortisol and rage transmutes into fear in everybody else, even people who are trying to avoid rage and cortisol! The amount of gunfire in my neighborhood has increased in intensity as the rage of white rural men has increased, probably because of Donald Trump being in court. Yesterday it went on for a long time, and the guns were louder for some reason. Because the guns are bigger? I'm afraid to go look, because the last time I went to look, I could hear bullets pinging off of trees down there by the creek, and I thought it would be better to turn around and run home.
Funny how you can avoid news, as I have been generally, but still pick up on the scary vibes even if you don't really want to, because other people are so strung out, and this can happen even in a place with a relatively low density of humans.
This post is everything, Jay. Thank you. I've noticed how cortisol culture has acted as a silencer for me, prone to (sometimes over-) nuance as I am. I wonder how many are affected similarly?
When I was a chaplain intern, I tended to a broken family whose elderly mother had just died. Overcome with grief and cortisol, one adult son was threatening a lawsuit and also to hold up whatever funeral arrangements were being made. He was raging in the hallway while I and the rest of the family were in a bereavement room. I came out to speak with him, trying not to take sides, but to deescalate the situation pastorally. I'm afraid my calm demeanor did nothing for his enraged state. In supervision with a colleague later, it was suggested that a possible course of action might have been to match the energy while still presenting a listening, compassionate presence, and then gradually guiding the energy down. That's very difficult to do! And I'm wondering if something akin to that is called for in this atmosphere...
That meme is great. You could sell a few tee shirts with that meme on them, but not many I'm afraid.
I'm afraid generally. It's weird how THEIR cortisol and rage transmutes into fear in everybody else, even people who are trying to avoid rage and cortisol! The amount of gunfire in my neighborhood has increased in intensity as the rage of white rural men has increased, probably because of Donald Trump being in court. Yesterday it went on for a long time, and the guns were louder for some reason. Because the guns are bigger? I'm afraid to go look, because the last time I went to look, I could hear bullets pinging off of trees down there by the creek, and I thought it would be better to turn around and run home.
Funny how you can avoid news, as I have been generally, but still pick up on the scary vibes even if you don't really want to, because other people are so strung out, and this can happen even in a place with a relatively low density of humans.
This post is everything, Jay. Thank you. I've noticed how cortisol culture has acted as a silencer for me, prone to (sometimes over-) nuance as I am. I wonder how many are affected similarly?
When I was a chaplain intern, I tended to a broken family whose elderly mother had just died. Overcome with grief and cortisol, one adult son was threatening a lawsuit and also to hold up whatever funeral arrangements were being made. He was raging in the hallway while I and the rest of the family were in a bereavement room. I came out to speak with him, trying not to take sides, but to deescalate the situation pastorally. I'm afraid my calm demeanor did nothing for his enraged state. In supervision with a colleague later, it was suggested that a possible course of action might have been to match the energy while still presenting a listening, compassionate presence, and then gradually guiding the energy down. That's very difficult to do! And I'm wondering if something akin to that is called for in this atmosphere...