As we re-enter the world, how will you elicit your comfort & calm? Several clients and friends have recently expressed some anxiety, apprehension, or an uneasiness about “getting back out into the world.” What they’re experiencing, from what I gather, stands apart from stress of the world opening up again (businesses reopening, mask mandates lifting, etc). This is more about identity, normalcy, and a distaste for being too busy (again). The Pause The closing down (during the pandemic) inserted...
Doc Brown from the movie Back to the Future might have offered Marty the advice to “skip over 2020”! We have not yet invented time-travel to bring us out of this gravelly experience, nor can we travel to a different realm (not most of us, anyway). We’ve embarked on new territory, together yet separate, and altogether changed. Can we bring curiosity with the changes? I wonder what opportunities would be lost without having gone through these personal, communal, national,...