The Best Top 10 Life Hacks List

Hello,

It's Sunita here.

The Way Back Home.

Do the Right Work.

Do your Work!

Comparing yourselves to others will not help you.

Trying to find your salvation in the advice someone else gives you is futile.

Trying to gleam life through a 'Top 10 Life Hack Tip' list of a celebrity guru is nonsense.

We have to walk on our own path to find our truth.

It is who we become on that journey that gives us the 'hacks' we long for.

But they are not hacks.

They are garlands made of insights, wisdom, failures, lessons, wounds, glory, empowerment, confidence, swag, and experiences that we have earned on our way back home.

No one can offer those to us.

Only we can.

What someone else can give us are markers to look for on that journey.

Those who are in the position to offer us such valuable information will do so with utmost humility and grace and with the disclaimer that they know very little.

Because they are busy in their own quest and know that we all know nothing so must try to make meaning out of what we experience.

So, do the right work. Do your own work.

Until next time,

Moving forwards,

Sunita

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How You Can Offer Support to a Grieving Loved One if You Don't Know What to Say

Hello,

It's Sunita here.

We often struggle with what to say to someone who has experienced the death of a loved one.

A very dear friend of mine recently lost his partner of 30 years to cancer. My initial reaction to the news was a whoosh of so many emotions.

Initially they threatened to overcome my thinking brain that wanted to console him. I took a deep breath and sat down to experience my feelings with an open heart. I understood they were there to help me move forward in an authentic way.

I also knew that my reaction to his loss came with my grief for him and sadness for own my life losses.

I know how much death hurts so felt deep empathy for him.

I tried to think what would I need to hear if I was him at that time. These words came to mind.

So, I timidly and humbly offered them to him with this private prayer-

"Please God, don't let them be the wrong words."

They weren't.

He kept saying the words to himself throughout the next few demanding and heartbreaking days of the wake and funeral when things threatened to take him down.

When his son felt physically overwhelmed with the intensity of his grief on losing his mom my friend shared them with him too.

These words became their mantra.

These words strengthened them.

These words gave them permission to be weak, broken and sad while remembering they are strong, majestic and amazing.

These words are now my mantra too.

Maybe I wrote them because I needed to hear them?

If you have someone who needs to hear this affirmation, I hope you will share it.

We all often forget that,
We are strong and weak
We are sad and can laugh
We are broken and majestic
We are amazing!

This Permission gives us Freedom.

Embracing the complexities of the human experience and the tough but beautiful business of being human is what thriving is all about.

Moving forwards,

Sunita

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Why We Must Treat Society as a Patient of Attachment and Childhood Trauma

 Hello,

It's Sunita here.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are now commonly talked about in our society. But I feel that there is more progress to be made in how we approach these conversations.

We are often sick but don't always know that. 

We can't recognize our own impairment. 

We will, in my opinion have to treat society as the patient because I don't see a sweeping transformation happening to reduce the occurrence, severity and widespread nature of this trauma. 

Instead, I believe we will need incremental changes to our understanding of the origin of this trauma that will lead to systemic healing. 

Otherwise we will continue to have a dialog in which there is only a perpetrator-victim narrative. 

I am not at all suggesting that adults should not be accountable for causing harm to children (in most cases it's their own offspring who they harm.) But I believe we need to look beyond a generation, two or more to understand how someone came to be a 'perpetrator'.

As a culture we must become more capable of making the difficult choice of talking about trauma in a way that is honest, compassionate and transformational.

Then we must continue to find and devote the resources for the systemic changes we need to make to stop this blight of our times from taking us down as a society.

How does one narrate attachment trauma and ACEs from the inside out?

This what I think of in my waking and non waking hours.

Until next time,

Moving forwards,

Sunita

Photo above- My first day of grade 1- Lethbridge, Alberta

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