Hi Friends-
I'm excited to announce that the gorgeous website for my new community project, Radiate, is now live! You can learn all about it at www.radiate-community.com.
Radiate is going to be the most in-depth creative program I've ever offered, and I think it's going to be pretty magical.
Registration opens next Friday, June 18th. I'm limiting the size of the community, so registration will be first come, first served.
I do hope you can join!
💗
Jocelyn
| | LINK ABOUT IT
The body as compass. A reader recently introduced me to the fantastic For the Wild podcast, and I started with this deeply insightful interview with Nkem Dfoe, creator of the Resilience Toolkit: "So often in the wellness world, where it's about lowering your stress… you see a lot of spiritual bypassing or toxic positivity about always be calm, and always take the high road, and what happens is that people are having legitimate responses, legitimate trauma responses, legitimate stress responses to conditions of adversity, be they interpersonal, be they collective, be they structural, and people are made to feel that there's something wrong in them for having these responses. And that, you know, if they can just settle, they'll be more productive."
Do brain implants change your identity? This is an absolutely fascinating piece on how our brains work and the tenuousness of selfhood. "In 2006, a French team published a study about the unexpected consequences of otherwise successful implantations. Two years after a brain implant, sixty-five per cent of patients had a breakdown in their marriages or relationships, and sixty-four per cent wanted to leave their careers. Their intellect and their levels of anxiety and depression were the same as before, or, in the case of anxiety, had even improved, but they seemed to experience a fundamental estrangement from themselves. One felt like an electronic doll. Another said he felt like RoboCop, under remote control."
You can unlearn anxiety. Unlearning anxiety has definitely been a personal project of mine for the past many years — though I can't say I'm done alas! This was an engaging Ezra Klein interview on how to go about it: "So if somebody is working with self-judgment or just noticing that they're judging themselves, I have them pay attention to what it feels like. When you judge yourself, does it actually feel good? Does it feel closed down? Does it feel contracted? Typically, the answer is yes. And then I can say, well, how does that compare to when you're kind to yourself? And they notice, well, kindness feels better. It feels more open and expanded. So the commonality between kindness and curiosity is that both feel more open."
"I'm finally able to just exist." A moving interview with Elliot Page by former Hurry Slowly guest Thomas Page McBee. "What has happened the most since coming out to people close to me is this massive explosion of creativity. One of my best friends and I wrote our first screenplay, and I'm developing something else now, and I made some music with a friend. I think of all the energy and time that was going towards feeling uncomfortable, constantly checking my body, just feeling unwell. And I've got a new ability to explore creatively and write, and just how much I'm reading—that's been really amazing."
Moving beyond diversity toward racial equity. A thoughtful and vulnerable piece from Living Cities CEO Ben Hecht on the challenges of creating racial equity in the workplace: "Conflict is not only incidental but is required for transformation to occur and be sustained. It's been said that conflict — from discomfort to active disagreement — is change trying to happen. Unfortunately, most workplaces today go to great lengths to avoid conflict of any type. That has to change. The cultures we seek to create cannot brush past or ignore conflict, or worse, direct blame or anger toward those who are pushing for needed transformation."
When my authentic is your exotic. A heartbreaking essay by novelist Soniah Kamal about the stories "foreign" authors are expected to tell: "In her novel The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri was lauded for her specificity, for writing about clementines instead of mere oranges. But could I get away with specifying the Alphonso mango, or anwar ratol, or langhra, or chaunsa instead of just saying mango? (And if so, to italicize or not?) I put the mango in. I took the mango out. I spent four months playing in/out. It was tiresome and annoying. More importantly I began to ask myself why I should substitute the mango."
+ Making your workplace safe for grief.
+ The learning zone vs the panic zone.
+ The creepy Amazon developments continue.
+ The American Dream as a service.
+ Use your phone as a webcam.
| | SHOUT-OUTS:
Link appreciation to: Race Ahead, Ann Friedman, Dense Discovery, and Amy Hong.
The haunting photographs are from: Dillon Marsh, who's based in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Hi, I'm Jocelyn, the human behind this newsletter. I created the online course RESET, a cosmic tune-up for your workday, and I host Hurry Slowly — a podcast about how you can be more productive, creative, and resilient by slowing down. | | | | |
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