🌜 Scrolls and Streams: April 23, 2022
What we've been reading, watching and listening to in the world of work, magic and economic justice at Five and Nine HQ.
Scrolls and Streams 📜 🌊 is Five and Nine’s monthly selection of insights and commentary that have caught our eyes and ears. All links are shared in the spirit of “this was interesting” and not necessarily “we fully endorse this.”
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Top Five
We have to pay attention to grief in order to figure out what it’s teaching us. That’s a form of caring for the grief. 🌊
Who’s excited about going back to the office? More executives want to return to the office than employees. One reason? What’s best for the organization sometimes looks different from what’s best for the individual. Also: according to one study, people of color in the US are more likely to prefer a fully remote or hybrid working environment:
Executives have a better setup at work,” said Elliott. “They probably have an office with a door. They probably don’t have the same child care issues as many employees. The risk that we run, as a society, even in a hybrid-work setting, is executives don’t listen to employees looking for flexibility and a real proximity bias sets in among people who are at the office and those that aren’t.”
The trauma-like symptoms we’re all developing as the pandemic continues:
A survey by the APA found a significant increase in the demand for mental health treatment in 2021. Providers are stretched thin, waitlists are growing, and people are reaching out for myriad problems, Evans said, but anxiety, depression and other trauma-related disorders were at the top.
Kaira Jewel Lingo speaks with California Institute for Integrative Health Studies professor Megan Lipsett about:
her teaching and her latest book, We Were Made for These Times, which offers teaching on meditation and a step-by-step process to nurture deeper freedom and stability in daily life.”
How do we embrace a new purpose after the pandemic? Part of it involves reaching out to people also undergoing a change:
The best part of us all experiencing this shift in life and purpose together is that none of us are alone… Offer your support in their journey and seek their advice on yours. There’s never been a better time for a peer mentoring group, a book club, or a job transition group (even virtually). That empathy you feel for everyone else’s transition? They feel it for you, too.
More Scrolls and Streams 📜 🌊
A Yin Yoga approach to tune into yourself, from Tamika Caston-Miller at Yoga Journal: “A slow yoga practice gifts me with the opportunity to turn inward, listen, and notice what I’m holding within myself.”
On the So Money podcast, Farnoosh Torabi speaks with Dina Kaplan about mindfulness, financial management and when it makes sense to ask for money.
How psychedelics’ increasing popularity is affecting local economies and ecologies
“Gender, racial, and class inequalities are persisting, yet women are called on to just believe in themselves.”
Viola Davis on how she worked with her early racial trauma for her autobiography: “Davis’s early life is dark and unnerving, full of blood, bruises, loss, grief, death, trauma. But that day after school was perhaps her most wounding memory: It was the first time her spirit and heart were broken. She had her beginning.”
What if apps were designed to calm us rather than grab our attention?
For some of us, financial decisions are best made not with a spreadsheet but a consideration of one’s values and priorities
Honest Out of Office messages, like “I need to stare into space and think about what I am doing with my life.”
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