Marisa, thank you for being so vulnerable. Your willingness to share your pain, knowing others will relate and grow, is inspiring. You said, "I am someone who is accustomed to basically doing it all. I run a business, I write books, I help leaders solve complex societal problems, I run after a toddler and I bake the best chocolate chip cookies, but today I can barely do any of that. And as a result I find myself filled with a new form of grief. A grief that arises when you lose your ability to be you and it is terrifying." Marisa, I haven't known you long and I don't know you well, but from where I sit, you haven't lost the ability to be you. My gut tells me who you ARE has never been clearer than it is right now. You ARE strong. You ARE honest. You ARE brave. Please know that is the value I have always put on knowing you. Just being in the orbit of you. Never what you do. Just who you are while you do it.
Marisa, thank you for being so vulnerable. Your willingness to share your pain, knowing others will relate and grow, is inspiring. You said, "I am someone who is accustomed to basically doing it all. I run a business, I write books, I help leaders solve complex societal problems, I run after a toddler and I bake the best chocolate chip cookies, but today I can barely do any of that. And as a result I find myself filled with a new form of grief. A grief that arises when you lose your ability to be you and it is terrifying." Marisa, I haven't known you long and I don't know you well, but from where I sit, you haven't lost the ability to be you. My gut tells me who you ARE has never been clearer than it is right now. You ARE strong. You ARE honest. You ARE brave. Please know that is the value I have always put on knowing you. Just being in the orbit of you. Never what you do. Just who you are while you do it.