Issue 49 – Winter 2024

Like many of you, I do not have office colleagues to chat with around the photocopier or to celebrate the end of the year in the form of Christmas work parties. However, in my immediate area there are quite a few solo-therapist/practitioners and people who work from home. So last night I decided to get a group of us ‘solo workers’ together and head to the local Marché de Noël.

Surrounded by Christmas lights and wooden market booths, we shared hearty dishes made from melting French cheese, sweet beaver tails (Queues de Castor) – a speciality from Montreal
– and spicy hot wine. As the evening progressed, the conversation slowly shifted from heavy darker topics of frustrations with work and family challenges to lighter, more inspirational and
heartfelt exchanges on Christmas plans and joyful life events, then hopes, dreams and intentions for the future. Not only did the words of the discussion change, but peoples’ body language,
posture and energy shifted too. Watching this transition, and seeing the sparkle come back into peoples’ eyes, I was reminded of the importance and power of community. Something so vital to wellbeing, yet something – especially for those that work alone – that our modern-day life consistently disconnects us from.

Continue reading in issue 49…