Working with love and joy even when it is challenging
The last three years have been enormously challenging and at the same time filled with so many enlightening experiences and lessons. I learnt how to fully transition my work to online spaces. I learnt how to be brave and work during the dark days of the pandemic even when I was tired, demotivated and fearful. I learnt to find the blessing in illness when I was hospitalised with Covid Pneumonia in 2021 during one of my busiest work years when I was probably overworking myself and needed a rest. I learnt to self heal and revitalise myself to begin to work again post the illness but finding new ways to be with myself and be with the work. All of this would not have been possible if I were not surrounded with the love of family, friends and colleagues - my phone became my lifeline once I was better enough to be able to communicate once more. Colleagues stepped in to do some of my work when I couldn't. Medical staff, fellow patients, family and friends did so much for me an...