Priya Khan

About

A moment that recurs in this work: someone describes an intrusion that hit them during an ordinary errand, and then adds, almost embarrassed, that they managed to finish the errand anyway. They mention it as an aside. I always stop and mark it, because it is the whole thing in miniature. That is what capability looks like while it is being rebuilt. Flashbacks lose their power not by disappearing but by becoming survivable interruptions rather than events that end the day. The first evidence of that shift is almost always something mundane, like completing a shopping trip. We watch for the mundane evidence deliberately, because nobody else will. I began in research and moved across, and I have never lost the habit of asking what would count as a result. Finishing the errand counts. If you are managing more than you give yourself credit for, get in touch.