Friday, July 24, 2020

Stepping Back In

Today I began to explore writing the chapter proposal on workplace bullying that an editor approached me about doing and which I shared with such excitement a week ago.

Today I stand no less determined to do it and honored to still play a role in awareness on this topic, yet stepping back into the world of it again comes with so many emotions.

I also wondered if you are ever truly free of the pain and heartache and loss that workplace bullying causes to you and those you love seeing you experience it.

I am afraid that the answer is no. So I will forgive myself for being hesitate to jump into these waters again but I will.

Again and again, I will. Even if I have to swim upstream, against the current I will. Even if I fear going under, and even if I need to cling to a branch now and then just to stay afloat.

Because workplace bullying and speaking out against it matters, those that experience it matter and I matter. I will not be silent, I will not stay still, I will keeping swimming against the tide for as long as I am able.