Asking for help

What it is, what it isn’t

In the comments: Which one of these strategies are you taking into this week?

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This week

I’m on spring break with my family (hence the brevity of this week’s note) but that doesn’t mean my practice is paused. In fact, these lessons apply just as much in my personal life as they do professionally. So join me, won’t you, in considering:

• What do I need right now?

• Who can help me?

• How will I ask for it?

• How will I receive it?

• Reflecting: Did I get what I needed? How did it feel? How did it benefit me? How did it benefit the other person(s)? Will I do it again?

Friends, let’s not forget that we need one another. We are not independent, we are interdependent. Not one of us achieves or accomplishes anything purely on our own.

The culture of individualism that many of us were raised in is based in a toxic mythology. It breeds isolation and domination. It serves the interests of those who already have power.

In rejecting it, we find there is more support than we ever imagined, and we become a safe person in a world that needs more of them.

I don’t know about you, but I am learning and re-learning this every day.