Tag: community care

• 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.

  sarahrevie

  March 14, 2026

  Care Work, Harm Reduction, Mental Health, Social Services, Systems

  Care Work, community care, compassion, Harm Reduction, healing, health, legislation, Mental Health, policy, supervised_consumption_sites

• The Weight We Share

  

  To the burnt-out and the lost. To the ones who keep choosing care even when it breaks their hearts. To the ones who have held anger, guilt, and grief in the same breath and kept going anyway. To those who stay, even when it feels like the world has stopped listening. This is my love…

  sarahrevie

  March 8, 2026

  Care Work, Harm Reduction, Mental Health, Social Services, System Burnout

  burnout, community, community care, compassion, emotional labour, Harm Reduction, healing, healthcare, Mental Health, systems change, writing

• 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.…

  sarahrevie

  March 7, 2026

  Harm Reduction, Mental Health, Social Services, System Burnout

  burnout, Care Work, community care, compassion, emotional labour, Harm Reduction, healthcare, Mental Health, systems change