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The Importance of Coming in Soft

westchamplainfht
Sep 22, 2024
1 min read

I love this quote by Victoria Erickson:

"When you reach your edge, soften. Soften until you slip through the constraints and can create a new rhythm, a new route, a new release. Water is soft yet powerful. Reach your edge, and soften. - Victoria Erickson

Our rigidity and inflexibility have the ability to hold us back. We can experience this type of unyielding thinking at work, in our relationships, in our expectations of ourselves and others. I especially appreciate Erickson's awareness of when it is important to soften - when we reach our edge. When we are feeling prickly about something, entitled, indignant; those are the times we need to remind ourselves to come in soft. I often say that something delivered calmly carries far more weight than something delivered in anger. Coming in soft allows the other person to be heard, provides more flexibility to our thinking and matures us to an understanding that the world is far more grey than black and white.

Water is soft yet powerful;

what a lovely image we can use when we need to remind ourselves to come in soft. Photo by Jeffrey Workman on Unsplash

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Land Acknowledgement

The West Champlain Family Health Team acknowledges it is located upon the traditional and unceded territory of the Algonquin People and respects the traditional knowledge and healing developed over generations. We have the privilege and responsibility to serve First Nations, Inuit, and Métis of many backgrounds and from many treaty and non-treaty lands and territories, and to demonstrate respect for the contributions and cultures of Indigenous Peoples.

 

Iye West Champlain Family Health Team ogíkikenindánáwá taniziwadj ondaje Algonquin Anishinábe tanakíwin ega ka mígiwewadj iyo kichi Anishinábewakí ashidj odapítenindánáwá kikádjichigewin ashidj mino nódjimowin ka pamíkán pinawígo. Nínawind d’ayánánán shawenimigoziwin ashidj inenindágoziwin kidji wídókáwadag Anishinábeg, Abitawizíg ashidj Kíwedinóg máneg wendjibáwadj ashidj níbina nakondiwin ashidj ega akíng ashidj tanakíwinan ashidj kidji wábandayá apítenindagoziwin ondji ka mígiwewadj ashidj pimádjiwowinan ogo Anishinábeg Pemádizidjig.

 

The West Champlain Family Health Team is grateful to the Indigenous Health Circle (which works in collaboration with The Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn and the Ottawa Valley Ontario Health Team) for sharing a meaningful land acknowledgement both in English and Omámíwininímowin (the Algonquin Anishinábe language), which is the basis of our own.

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