Chinese writer Lu Xun more than a century ago: “Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing — but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.”
I’m late coming to this post but it has been healing for me. Lately I’ve been having interpersonal conflicts I regret and don’t understand. I know about cognitive dissonance but I have trouble engaging fully with it, mostly because my late mother, who was a psychoanalytic social worker isn’t here for me to talk to. She was, like you, someone who made connections between political realities, social justice and her training in psychology. I am so grateful to you, especially because you’re an investigative mind from the WaPo, just as I was. Thank you, thank you.
Absolutely love this piece. I just today had a coaching session to help locate my anxiety - with what happens just before, and what gets me out of it. Your post helps me think about it in a few new ways as well. Thank you. Please keep writing!
Chinese writer Lu Xun more than a century ago: “Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing — but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.”
I’m late coming to this post but it has been healing for me. Lately I’ve been having interpersonal conflicts I regret and don’t understand. I know about cognitive dissonance but I have trouble engaging fully with it, mostly because my late mother, who was a psychoanalytic social worker isn’t here for me to talk to. She was, like you, someone who made connections between political realities, social justice and her training in psychology. I am so grateful to you, especially because you’re an investigative mind from the WaPo, just as I was. Thank you, thank you.
Absolutely love this piece. I just today had a coaching session to help locate my anxiety - with what happens just before, and what gets me out of it. Your post helps me think about it in a few new ways as well. Thank you. Please keep writing!