Pausing Is A Privilege

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creating space to pause is vital to our well-being and to the ability to make the impact we want to create by participating meaningfully in change.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But pausing isn’t accessible in the same ways to everyone. In many ways, the ability to pause is a privilege.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Erica and India discuss the intersection of pausing and privilege, with some key examples of how those concepts have shown up in their lives and in the lives of people around them.</span></p> <p><strong>In this discussion:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why the word “pause” is central to the Pause on the Play® brand and podcast</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What it means to pause in our lives</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How privilege shows up in the ability to pause</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The intersection of pausing, privilege, and generational trauma </span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Ready to dive deeper?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join</span> <a href= "http://www.pauseontheplay.com/community"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Pause on the Play® Community</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">for our newest curated exploration, Create Space to Take Care of Yourself. This evergreen collection of resources and workshops, including Ixchel Lunar’s “Decolonizing Time: Centering the R.E.S.T. Recipe,” journal questions and prompts, and the Allyship Meditation Sound Bath to help support you in taking care of yourself. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creating space to pause and care for yourself is a privilege, but it is so important when we do have the ability to create it. </span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Learn more about this curated exploration