One hard thing about my work is — I get hate mail sometimes. Maybe you do too — or you just get exposed to other people’s hurtful messages, and feel “punched in the gut” or outraged when you’re just going about your business reading articles online or scrolling through your social media feed — in a pandemic!
But there is a miracle going on of people rising up and helping each other and taking risks and doing everything they can think to do — and especially if they’re in a leadership role — they still get blamed and attacked! Are you as sensitive to that as I am?
Three-plus weeks into this global coronavirus lockdown, I want to talk about another virus of sorts, and that’s the growing “permission” some people are giving themselves to tear down, put down, attack and mock other people they don’t even know — people with opinions they don’t agree with and probably don’t even understand. They’re just lashing out.
We’ve all seen it, and maybe you’ve even put your toe in, and taken part in it a little bit. It’s easy to do — it’s almost encouraged. But if you grew up with childhood trauma, chances are that being exposed to this kind of thing is a trigger for you. And what’s so hard about that is, when we’re triggered, we can end up fighting back in a way that creates even more harm — not just for the other person, but for ourselves — I hear from hundreds of people who have lost years, decades of their lives to being caught up in attack mode.
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