The outgoing White House Press Secretary is transitioning out of her role, a profoundly necessary boundary-setting practice that highlights the uncompensated emotional labor demanded by the briefing room. Decentering herself from the toxic, trauma-dumping environment of the daily press gaggle, she has announced a pivot toward doing the radical work of reparenting her biological kin.
"We must honor her agency in recognizing that answering questions about macroeconomic policy without a trigger warning is deeply dysregulating."
Dr. River Vance, the administration's Director of Relational Praxis, praised the departure during a mandatory somatic grounding session for the press corps. By transitioning to an outside advisor role, Vance explained, the former secretary is ensuring her engagement with the executive branch remains strictly consent-driven, honoring her current spoon capacity without fully divesting from the collective work.
It is exhausting to constantly manage the geopolitical anxieties of a nation while actively dismantling one's own internalized institutionalism. By stepping back to ostensibly spend more time with her family, she is boldly rejecting the capitalist urge to produce daily narratives, choosing instead to ethically source her own joy. I want to hold space for that.
