Work Hurts: workplace injuries of the heart and mind (2029)
HURT :: as verb and noun
/hərt/ :: a word as close to heart as hardy
Technology. Trauma. Temperament | These are some of the causes of workplace misunderstandings. But work can also harm us when we have incompetent bosses, delinquent colleagues, and disastrous office politics. When we ourselves have too-high expectations of others and are not compassionate for their differences. All this creates toxic environments where both the workplace and our inner worlds – suffer. The casualties are grave concerns: injuries, such as broken spirits, mutilated careers, and disabled selves. So, what’s to gain from this pain?
Less a damaging exposé, and more a love-in, Sylvie Hill’s new book (2028-2029) will examine these difficult times at work, and how we can sit with, and then evolve beyond, the discomfort. As a writer, poet, teacher and emergent healthcare helper, this collection will be crafted to be a sweet salve of curative mentoring through sympathetic narratives (and heaps of Tolstoyan bite and sagesse).
This book springboards from my own unbelievable stories into a collection of what others have experienced in their workplace. Stories for those who want to serve well, not be such modern slaves trudging through corporate hells, Work Hurts will help heal the hardy with heart, and restore the energy and peace you lost along the way…