We are moving. At the end of May my husband and I decided the timing was finally right to pursue buying our dream house on two acres of land so our family could spend more time in nature. But it’s the middle of a pandemic, well-meaning people said. But the economy is unstable, they added. But it’s so much work and you have two young kids home, they cautioned. We didn’t listen. One of the …
“Being right is like heroin to human beings,” says Baron Baptiste, one of my teachers. There is a lot of “rightness” being pushed around right now. The problem (or perhaps the solution if we can see how this influences us) is that we all are, in fact, right. The beliefs we tightly hold onto came from our life experiences and made them right and true for us. This doesn’t mean they are universal truths, but, …
So many of us are still talking about how to survive the uncertainty of this pandemic, but here’s the thing: While the circumstances of the coronavirus lockdown (even with them starting to be lifted) are different from our old “normal,” the reality of life is still the same. This reality is that certainty is an illusion. We’ve never had certainty in life and never will have it. Before coronavirus, no one’s health, no one’s job, no one’s …
Two weeks ago, I hit quarantine rock bottom. Tweezing out the gravel in my stinging wounds, I assessed how I had gotten here, and how I could get back up again. Overnight I had become a stay-at-home mom with the closing of kindergarten and our decision to keep our youngest home from day care/preschool. I continued serving my current contracted coaching clients, but put all other business projects on hold to free up time to …
“How you do anything is how you do everything.” You may have heard this before. Or, put another way as in this Zen proverb: “Wherever you go, there you are.” This means that however you have coped with stress throughout your life, is the same way you are coping with the uncertainty and fear caused by this coronavirus. We inherited our coping mechanisms from our parents and caregivers. Whatever was modeled to us, we adopted …