Strategies For Staying

This month Sascha and I are talking about staying. 

We discuss how staying with the hurt bits and the fears is not passive; it's muscular. It burns calories. 

We notice how it feels, to us, like an endeavor for which a person requires a support crew - to wave and shout encouragement and offer snacks and flashlights when the sun goes down. 

It also doesn't feel intuitive - it feels like something we are learning, slowly, by trial and error. In hope that shared knowledge might help us fall less often and less painfully as we build our staying skills we share strategies for staying. 

It feels helpful to us. We hope it also feels helpful to you.