No one is coming to save you.
- Sarah Poet
- Jun 24, 2024
- 20 min read
Updated: Aug 6
“No one is coming to save you.” It was early 2018 and I had made a Facebook post with this quote. I was making one of the boldest decisions I’d ever made in my life, to leave my education career and become a coach and founder. At the time, I owned a home as a single woman and mother to a nine year old son.
There was a silent trauma going on in the background because I was also going through a super misogynistic experience, losing the opportunity to ease out of my school leadership position, as planned, because I’d named gender-related issues in the workplace. They wanted me out sooner. I was negotiating a severance in a super unpleasant situation while starting my coaching career, which seemed to be coming faster than I’d planned. I was definitely nervous.
A friend of mine reached out to say that she was so sorry to see what my father was doing on Facebook, which alerted me to the fact that he’d taken my “no one is coming to save you” post and made a big skeptical about how whoever would write this was securing a seat in hell because Jesus, indeed, was coming to save you, and was the only one who ever could.
