11.25.20 EDU_Sofya's Choice

First assignment we give everyone, no matter who, how big, how old, how young, or how many years you’ve been in school, is to write your dreams. In not one, not two, but twelve areas of your life. You might have heard about it. It’s a pretty notorious assignment, even by postdoc standards. Not just because it changes lives (though, that too), but because it’s hard for us humans (no matter how many letters behind our names) to not only admit our dreams, but put them in print. Let alone, share them.It certainly sucked (technical term) for Sofya.Figuring out exactly what Sofya, a 29-year old postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Microbiology, wanted in all areas of her life, let alone her CAREER, was particularly hard. So much so, her coach gave her ANOTHER assignment to do first.  What assignment?! The Purge.Sounds like a dark Netflix show, right? Close. Whenever a client is upset, stuck in an uncomfortable situation (i.e. writing 12 dreams) that they swear they want to change but seemingly can’t, we have them write a purge.  A purge is when you write down, in a stream of consciousness, everything that is upsetting and frustrating you. It need not be coherent, or make sense to anyone but you, but it does need to be out of your head and on to “paper” (or screen, if you will).Until you get out every last part of the narrative you have in your head, the entire saga feels real. Worse, all the contradictions in your mind are what shape and inform your reality. Or, in this case, Sofya’s reality, especially when it came to her career. Here’s an excerpt from her Career purge:

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