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 …
While self-care has always been essential, perhaps it’s more important now that we are dealing with a collective worldwide trauma and lots of up-and-down emotions. Our options for self-care are limited now that we must stay home, so I’ve outlined 14 ways you can fill your cup without spending money, taking a lot of time, or leaving your house. Since most women struggled with creating time and giving themselves permission for self-care before Covid-19, it’s …
“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 …
Are you contributing to the solution for this worldwide crisis? Or the problem? I hope you’ve allowed yourself to feel and move through the 5 stages of grief of your old “normal” (as per my previous blog). And that you are finding yourself more and more in the acceptance stage. Because, yes, you get to grieve, but also, it’s time to wake up. As with anything in life, we can’t sit in victim mode or …
Had a good cry in the grocery store parking lot the other night. This 1st pic is from that moment. The 2nd pic is more recent. I’m still riding the roller coaster of the 5 stages of grief for my old life now that coronavirus social distancing has set in. Where are you at in your grieving process right now? This is what the 5 stages of grief are looking like for me. It’s important …