There is so much I want to say. So much I have felt incapable of expressing. So much that is being distorted and misrepresented and manipulated in order to allow powerful people to retain power. At the expense of so many innocent lives. It is hard not to feel overwhelmed when every day there isContinue reading "Learning to Unsilence Ourselves to Free Us All"
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Last Wednesday 29th November marked the annual UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, to highlight the ongoing occupation of Palestine since its partition to create the state of Israel in 1947, and below is the email I sent to 2000 colleagues and 80 EDI practitioners in Universities across Ireland, in case itContinue reading "International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People"
Palestine Has Set Us Free
If I learned anything from the Black Lives Matter movement in the summer of 2020, it is that you cannot rely on people to speak up on matters of injustice and inequality. No matter how close you may have been, no matter how "good" they may be, as friends or humans, not everyone has theContinue reading "Palestine Has Set Us Free"
Learning to Do Less to Achieve More
Continuing my learning of recovery from burnout, I recently wrote about the need to "do less", which is far easier said than done, particularly if you are anything like me and are recovering from a lifelong addiction to perfectionist productivity...
The Price of Stress is Too High
In April 2023, I wrote a post on LinkedIn about my experience with burnout - Beyond Burnout: Reflections and Red Flags - where I shared some my lessons in the hopes I would help others to avoid a similar "fiery fate". Since then, I have had multiple conversations with people both online and in person who are in various stages of struggle and recovery, and have noticed some recurring patterns for those of us who find ourselves in this position of being overworked and overwhelmed. I have also found myself to a whole new place of positivity, partly thanks to a new ethos of "living like we're on holiday", which I felt warranted a follow-up piece here on my personal blog.
Siobhán Kangataran 