98. Is It Wrong to Talk About Anything Else Right Now? Working, Creating, and Carrying On in a Time of Crisis

There are moments when the world feels too heavy to keep living normally.You open your phone and see violence, injustice, grief, and chaos. Suddenly posting about your work, your breakfast, your promotion, your art, or even your day job feels..wrong.It feels insensitive, self-centered, or like you’re ignoring what actually matters.So what are we supposed to do?Stop creating? Stop sharing? Stop living?In this episode, I (Marie Groover) share a conversation with a client who questioned whether she should promote her newly published novel while real harm was unfolding close to home. It was a question that quickly became my own.Together, we explore the tension between awareness and paralysis, grief and participation, responsibility and humanity.Because maybe the real question isn’t about social media at all.Maybe, it's about whether we’re allowed to keep showing up in our lives (at work, in our relationships, in our creativity) while the world is hurting (and while we are hurting with it).Drawing on a powerful idea echoed by Dan Savage and Glennon Doyle — we grieve, we work, and we dance — this episode offers a reframe:What if continuing to live isn’t a betrayal of the moment? What if it’s part of what we’re protecting?If you’ve been wondering whether now is the wrong time to share your work, celebrate something small, laugh with friends, or simply focus on your responsibilities, this conversation is for you.You are not the problem for still being alive inside a painful world. And your light might be helping someone stay in the fight more than you’ll ever know.Work with Marie: https://www.thecorppsychic.com/home/aboutStrange Breathless Days by Hannah Layne: https://www.strandbooks.com/strange-breathless-days-9798994242728.htmlWe Can Do Hard Things Episode Reference: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5lGCtnMTIbfqus2B3BhAlR?si=KfwAMtioQuK3xGVVyeMBXw