May 2020 Communication Tip
Survivor Guilt
I have been offering monthly communication tips for professional caregivers in the cancer center, but today, May 1, I wanted to offer just a couple of resources that I hope you find to be of some support for you as a person during these difficult times.
If you are feeling a bit numb in your work and life, and/or if you are feeling some sense of not doing enough, here’s a piece David Bullard and I just wrote about Secondary Trauma and Survivor Guilt
And, here’s a timely quote about Hope from the Great Czech Playwright Turned Dissident Turned President, Václav Havel
Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, no,t just because it stands a chance to succeed. The more unpropitious the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper that hope is. Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
May you find some sense, today, of what is good and true in yourself and in our world.
Best,
mike