I’m Learning How to Ask for Help

Just Julia · Oct 7, 2026 · 7m · transcript

I used to think the hardest part of losing a job would be the applications, the interviews, the waiting, the uncertainty. I was wrong. The hardest part has been asking for help. Not the practical act of sending a CV or writing a message, but what those actions seem to require from me internally. They require me to admit that I cannot solve everything on my own, and for someone who has spent most of her life doing exactly that, it is surprisingly painful.

There is something about asking for help that makes you feel exposed in a way failure sometimes doesn’t. You have to say: I need something…