If you have been reading The Last Resort for a while, thank you. It has been a space I have valued, and I hope it has given you something worth thinking about.

This letter is to tell you it is changing. Not disappearing. Changing.

The Last Resort focused on romantic relationships. The new newsletter, Proximity, will focus on relationships at work.

This came directly from my clients. Several people in corporate roles, people I work with as a relationship coach, kept raising the same thing. The friction they were experiencing at work did not feel like a skills problem or a strategy problem. It felt personal. Because it was.

They were asking me to help them make sense of the relationships inside their organizations. With their managers. Their teams. Their peers. The people they spent more waking hours with than anyone else.

As a coach, I have spent years working with people on how they relate to others. That work does not stop at the office door. It follows people in. And what I kept seeing in my corporate clients confirmed what I already knew from my practice

Most corporate problems are not technical problems.

They are relational problems wearing a professional mask. Misaligned expectations, broken trust, unspoken resentment, and communication that looks functional but is not. These are relationship dynamics. They just happen to exist inside an organization.

What Proximity will be

Each issue will take one problem that shows up in workplace relationships and work through it with honesty. Not generic advice. Not listicles. Not productivity tips dressed up as insight.

You will get three deep thoughts on the problem, a short story that shows it in action, two practical moves you can make, and one foundational truth to sit with.

The same rigor. The same refusal to oversimplify. A new context.

If this is not for you, I understand. No hard feelings.

If it is, I am glad you are staying.

Swati Mukherjee

Relationship Coach | Resilient Relationship

Meet the Relationship Coach: An ICF-certified coach with 15+ years across psychology, coaching, HR, and corporate training, Swati works at the intersection of personal and professional relationships.

Inside organizations, she focuses on the invisible layer most teams ignore—how trust erodes in small moments, how miscommunication compounds, and how unspoken expectations shape behavior, performance, and culture. Because most workplace problems aren’t operational. They’re relational.

The same patterns that create distance at home show up in meetings, feedback conversations, and leadership decisions. Swati’s work brings structure and awareness to these patterns, helping individuals and teams change how they show up—so both relationships and results improve.

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Until next time,

   The habit becomes the relationship.