Nancy and Nori

These are the words of a wise man who was responding to my concern that he is working so many hours and so many days without rest. This exchange occurred when we were deciding whether to hold an evening session for a mental health/self care training that I recently co-led to mobile medics who, on a daily basis, risk their lives in order to provide medical care to communities in remote jungle areas.  We agreed to have the session and for an hour that evening, the water was collected, in the form of learning yoga skills, enhancing coping skills, and learning to recognize stress in ourselves.  I feel, however, that here it is always raining.  There are always new skills to learn, more trainings to attend, more visitors to talk to, more collaboration to be done, more experts to consult, more information to gain, and more reports to read.  I suppose that is why this is a called a “movement” - forever moving, never resting.   But I do worry about what happens when our bodies and minds just can’t move anymore.   In the words of a dear friend, “I want to work, but my body won’t let me.”  That is what can happen.  But she will move.  She will push through. She will continue. She will keep the movement going. And she will inspire me to do the same.

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