So here comes the encouragement:
* you are not alone
* this, too, shall pass
* keep writing because someone needs your story
* keep writing because you love the craft
* you have survived 100% of the times that felt impossible
* art is rebellion
* art feeds your soul
* winter is for lying fallow 8/

I don't usually feel embarrassed very easily, but lately Alberta has been looking awfully foolish

Taking verbal pot-shots at a participant who can no longer protest because his mic was turned off reveals a much larger issue. It's a communication pattern much closer to bullying than anything else. Maintaining control rather than maintaining flow or momentum