Our relationship with ourselves, our relationship with money. Money healing, especially money humor. Our need for healing in crisis, but investing in the healing is literally an investment. As a social worker I have always been fascinated by the therapeutic frameworks we’ve learned and use to address these and every other relationship in a holistic manner. And yet the prominence of certain issues over others—in this case the cost of lives and the livelihoods lost during a global pandemic—bring us to a place of needing to claim our value and worth. As the common proverb all over the world conveys—those who provide must also do so for themselves. This can be a great pivotal first step towards a tremendous transition for all—for where we choose to spend our resources and how we create more and enrich others. To have intrinsic worth, but added invaluable worth by not seeing this sharing as sacrifice. It is an investment into our ability to make and give more. And so in between the times when we can only cry and mourn, may we heal and with that, remember how to laugh. In a time of limited resources, joy is one resource that comes at no measurable cost. It is inherently energizing, and equips us to give more. Find your joy.
