When marriage, career, or culture feels like it's falling apart, grounding practices and close friendships become your anchor. Real friendships let you express grief and fear the world won't, keeping you present instead of checked out.
What are some of the ways or how does one stay present in the face of things collapsing? Whether it's a marriage, whether it's a culture, whether it's a career, how does one stay present and not check out? Because the desire to do that, to just eject from the experience, is often quite intense.
But we go back to those foundational practices of friendship. I mean, these difficult times typically can generate an internal feelings of anxiety and uncertainty. And what we need need are some reliable grounding, some tethering. So even just having a few friendships can be incredibly important. Where we get to speak what the collective field does not permit, which is grief, fear, loss, uncertainty that's in our bodies when we're going through losses.
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