Creating A Reason To Be Chosen
Thank you for listening to The Canna Mom Show, and for slowing down your day to read this blog. I promise it will be a good read with a bonus at the very end. – Joyce
What do you see when you close your eyes? Lately, I see colors in clouds that seem to represent my emotions. Reds and oranges on my sad angry days and blues with swirling grays when life feels too hard. I used to think only in words. I’m a writer and a podcaster, words are important to me.
I’m also a person who strives for perfection and have felt the pressure to succeed in a time when women were supposed to “have it all” if we just “leaned in.”
I failed at that.
Recently, it was pointed out to me that although many of us who strive to achieve perfection often get what we want, when we don’t the failure feels tragic. A truth I relate to.
The failure I’ve felt over and over and over again is grounded firmly in my inability to transfer mom-work into paid-work. But because the needs of my children always trumped my professional ambitions, The Canna Mom Show nowexists. So that, I suppose, is the silver lining for me.
I’m a caregiver and I know how invisible that can feel. Caregivers’ days are spent worrying about others and investing ourselves in understanding their worlds. And caregivers don’t always choose who they care for, but what we all know is that the emotional experience of being invested in another’s life is a gift. A gift that needs no words.
The feelings and emotions that I see in the colored clouds which may be mine, or could be the emotions I’ve caught from those around me, are transient and often momentary. But don’t underestimate the power of a quality feeling, even for a moment, in the midst of our chaotic and frightening world. And feeling something is a great reason for choosing anything, really.
For three years we hope The Canna Mom Show has made you laugh, cry, learn and scheme with women like Sister Kate, a weed nun with The Sisters of the Valley; Patricia Patton founder of Canna Boomers ; and, Dr. Rachel Knox and Dasheeda Dawson the founders of the Cannabis Health Equity Movement. If emotions truly are contagious, then one I hope people catch from me is gratitude. I am grateful for you and all the women who have shared their canna stories with me since 2019. If I’ve learned anything during the great pandemic and years of physical isolation, it is that gratitude is necessary for life.
Gratitude is a blessing for a future we hope to create.
If you care about these stories and hope to create a future improved by the women in cannabis then I’m asking for your support of the Keep The Canna Mom Conversation Going campaign. And with gratitude I thank you for choosing to join us in creating Season 4, so that together we can elevate the stories of the women building the emerging cannabis industry and crush the stigma around cannabis and caregivers.
BONUS!!
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