This month, instead of our more typical informational blog, I wanted to slow down and check-in with my community.
How are you holding up? What is feeling so hard? What is feeling “normal”? What is feeling surprisingly easy?
Personally, I’ve had a lot on my mind. In many moments, it feels overwhelming. I’m holding on to concerns about my kids’ safety as well as my clients’ safety. I’m learning and adapting to the correct COVID-10 precautions, while also researching government programs and aid for small businesses while feeling worried about the economy and whether we are opening too soon. I’m exhausted by the news and concerned for those birthing, who are delivering in hospitals and facing scary and quickly changing protocols, like possibly not being allowed their doula, and CV+ people being separated from their babies. The new families at home with a new baby who may not have support. It’s all SO much.
Some of the things that are helping me process my stress and overwhelm during this time include:
- Limiting screen time– especially the news!
- Making phone calls with family and friends
- Taking walks, sitting outside, or gardening.
- Reading- I tend to listen to a lot of audiobooks.
- Prioritizing sleep when I can
- Cooking – There is something about nurturing my family this way that nurtures me.
- Working– because being with growing families is what feeds my soul!
There are no quick fixes for the bigness of the feelings and experiences we are having. However, each check-in, each act of self-care, each pause can be a salve.
Please reach out and let me know what’s going on with you. (Replies come straight to me.) This community can help you hold whatever it is you are holding.
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