Tag: Care Work
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The Weight of Invisibility
I spend a lot of my life reading people. Not because I want to, but because I’ve learned to. Because when what you’re carrying is invisible, you don’t always get to choose what feels safe to say.
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A Moral Failure
My heart breaks for the human beings who will die because of this decision. It sits heavy in my chest, knowing that the people responsible for making it likely do not feel that same heartbreak. They do not know the lives they are about to have a hand in ending. I do.
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The Weight of Systems
There’s a space between help and hope — wide enough to hold a system and small enough to fit in the pause before a worker says, “I’m sorry, there’s nothing more I can do.”
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The Weight of Softness
Softness is heavy. It sounds gentle but carrying it every day; in crisis calls, intake notes, late-night worries. It begins to ache in the bones. We are told to bring empathy, to hold space, to stay curious even when the stories are unbearable. And most days, we do. But softness is not weightless. It gathers.…
Being Human Writing 