Monica Lewinsky

We're conditioned to go, let me postpone my joy.

I don't actually have the right to experience joy right now because things are challenging.

And I'm really, really working on going, I'm aware of the challenges.

Yeah, I'm aware that the world feels like it's going down and burning in a trash can right now.

And how radical would it be for me to actually find joy now?

And it can be in...

the bite of a really juicy peach or planting a garden or playing the piano.

I mean, whatever that is, a bath, whatever that is, like giving yourself the approval to go, I'm not gonna postpone my joy and I'm not gonna put my life on hold.

I love that.

Everything's not perfect.

I am really, I am working on holding my center

on reclaiming what I know to be true.

and letting anyone else's projections, opinions, alternative facts exist in a separate circle.

Like I'm working on really reclaiming my core and not letting it be infiltrated by other things, which is a practice for me as an activist because I watch our democracy being, you know,

Hacksawed and sold for parts.

And I have to work on that because it is a calling in my life and I have to figure out how to keep it, you know.

If your life is a house and this sort of core I'm talking about is like the bedroom, you know, where you're meant to sleep, you can't let your work into your sleeping space.

And so I'm trying to keep the activism at the kitchen table and keep my room quiet for me.

The question I ask everybody at the end of our chat is if there's anything you're working on reclaiming right now, and it could be a thing or... Well, for me, it's an easy answer.

Oh, great.