I’m SisDr Sandra Richards, and I’m talking to myself.
The reason why I’m talking to myself, it’s because I keep asking people to help me with things, and it’s never quite an urgent matter for them. It’s an urgent matter for me. And it just got me to thinking that if we’re not careful, we won’t do the thing that we know we need to do because we’re waiting for other people. Waiting for other people will stop us from getting where we’re going. We’ll stay where we are, and we’ll watch other people go where they’re going. It seems to me that some of the things I’ve been teaching, I need to be listening to. I need to learn to do the thing that I tell other people to do.
Now that might seem like a really strange conversation for me to have with myself, but great leaders often have conversations with themselves. The reason why they do is because other people are not in front of them. That’s why they’re leaders. If you’re a leader, there’s no one in front of you. If you’re leading from the centre, there’s no one else there but you, and The Most High. Because it’s your centre, anybody who joins you is at the side, they can’t be at the centre, you’re the centre. If you’re charting a new path, there can’t be anybody in front of you because you’re in the lead.
So it seems reasonable to me that you have a conversation with yourself. So that’s what I’m doing. I had been asked for content for the longest while, “We just want to hear what you’ve got to say.” I wasn’t saying anything because I wanted someone to hold the camera. You don’t need anyone to hold the camera in this day and age. The camera can just be still and you just speak to it. So that’s what I’m doing. I’m talking to myself right now. And I’m hoping that you’re enjoying listening to me talking to myself.
There are so many other things I’m going to talk to myself about.
I’m going to talk to myself about toxic environments. I recently had an experience at work, and it was the most incredible learning experience. In the beginning I was in shock, but then I thought, actually this is a really unique experience, and it was recorded. That’s the funniest thing it was recorded. So I’m going to talk about toxic environments.
I’m also going to talk about money. Oftentimes we don’t talk about money, and I’m going to talk about it within the context of abundance, because money’s not everything. Often people want money so they can get something else. It’s the something else that we really are after, and money is the energy that we exchange to get that other thing. So I’m going to talk about that too
I’m also going to talk about parenting. I’m very fortunate in that I have been able to learn from young people and these young people are biologically mine, but also they are community mine. They are common, unity, mine. They belong to the same Caribbean, African, global environment as I do. They are melanin-rich, they are seen in the world a certain way. They show up a certain kind of way. But they have so much to teach us about what’s happening in the world. Our role as Elders is to guide them, to be present, to be available, to be in close enough proximity. And so we’ll talk about parenting.
We’re going to talk about being a Carer, the whole journey of being a Carer is something that’s not spoken about enough from a culturally competent perspective. So I’m going to do some of that too.
And also gonna talk about transitioning. We act like we’re going to be here forever, and you know energy doesn’t disappear, it changes! And so whilst we will change, we will not be on this earthly mortal plane forever. We need to talk about the points of entry and the points of exit. So we’re going to do a bit of that, and so very much more.
We’re going to do things like talk about makeup. I love painting my face. I love painting the rest of myself too. I picked up some hints and tips along the way, and I’m going to share something about them.
I’m also going to talk about being incarcerated. For over a year, we’ve been subject to a lock down, we can’t go out. We can’t do this, we can’t do that. We can’t meet people we love, we can’t hug. They called it social distancing, but it’s actually physical distancing, they’re two different things. And as social beings, it’s very very very harmful to proceed in life without having some social closeness, we can’t afford to have social distancing.
So those are just a couple of things we’re going to talk about, and I’m looking forward to hearing from you. Let me have some feedback.
SisDr is here to learn. More than anything I want to learn, and I want to share, and I want to experience myself as I talk to myself.
Maybe we call this Amplified Utterings.
SisDr Sandra Richards
THINK DIFFERENTLY
African-Centered Author | Coach
Activist | Speaker | Counsellor
www.sisdr.com