6 Steps to Recalibrate Without Giving In

How to live with clarity and purpose in a system designed to confuse and exhaust you.

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Dear friends

If my recent protest posts felt heavy, I understand — they landed heavily for me too. Writing them took so much out of me that for a few days afterward, I could barely manage to read more than a short Note at a time. It feels like there’s another “new normal “ to adjust to, and it’s hard to know where to go from here.

I used to think "new normal" meant something you settle into. A steady rhythm after the chaos. Something you adjust to, and then move forward from.

But this isn’t that kind of normal.

Living under an authoritarian-leaning regime — especially one as deliberately chaotic and corrupt as Trump’s — means the ground never stops shifting. The goalposts move. The lies get louder. The outrage piles up. And somewhere in the middle of all that, we’re meant to keep working, paying bills, parenting our kids, walking…