Half Caf, No Whip, With a Shot of Let’s Gooooo!
I’m preparing a talk while at a coffee shop, one of the cool ones with people busting out of the seams doing all the important things while drinking fancy beverages and eating yummy breakfast sandwiches. The topic given was “overcoming adversity” and after a good 90 minutes of prep I am lifting my head to consider how this might fall on the average Joe or in this audience’s case, Jolene. The good news about this talk is that I feel qualified to speak on adversity, having walked through not-so-lovely pregnancies (see: blog title), colic-ridden youth, and a miscarriage. Adversity is our common human experience, which is one motivation to be kind and dig to access your empathy genes when walking with someone facing it. The length of time, depth, and breadth of the difficulty or misfortune may have quite the range, but this uninvited guest visits us all at some point. But how do I talk about the overcoming part? Here is where I begin to see our common misconceptions begin to unravel, because to me overcoming adversity looks like a hero in a cape with a bright white smile and a home-cooked meal with well-behaved children. In actuality it[Read More]
