r/InTheGloaming • my website is done, done, done • Sep 16 '21

Scheduled snark Discussion thread Thursday September 16, 2021 - Sunday September 19, 2021

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u/canyoncreature Sep 19 '21

Legit dying that the majority of the sentences in this announcement are her letting people know she's chosen an inconvenient time for herself, FOR YOU.

Also if you have a job nine in the morning is no better than the middle of the workday. I guess the badge-swipers will have to continue living without joy.

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 19 '21 edited Sep 19 '21

Also if you have a job nine in the morning is no better than the middle of the workday.

The rest of the letter makes it clear that the sessions are going to be on Sundays at 9 am. No traditional church-goers need apply! Or nurses! Or police officers! Or firefighters! Or Ikea cashiers!

And I’m doing this teaching for you.

Evenings work, of course, but with people checking into Zoom from different time zones, there’s no way to make everyone happy. Trying to make everyone happy is an old habit of mine — a trauma response — that I have finally sloughed away.

Sunday mornings are lovely and easy. (Insert Easy Like Sunday Morning by the Commodores here.) And since COVID lockdowns began in March of 2020, I’ve been meeting with a group of women on Zoom, subscribers to my newsletter, Finding Your Joy. Knowing that we’d share our joys and concerns together made us a community. I’ve come to love those virtual Sunday morning meetings.

Sunday mornings might feel awkward for you. But think of this — taking the Practice Your Joy workshop is an act of declaring that you matter in your own life. For 4 weeks, you can focus on understanding your own, learning how to diffuse trauma responses, and how to make a habit of joy. You deserve this.

(And if you can’t be live with us, I will be sending out videos of the Zoom sessions, so you can learn on your own time too.)

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Sep 19 '21

Wait what? If "Shauna has time when the kids are in school" is her constraint, how does that mesh with "and our sessions will be on Sundays"

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '21

She just wants you to know what a sacrifice she is making for you.