Isn’t it difficult to wrap your mind around the fact that it’s been three years since the initial lockdown?
Three years of rearranging the entire landscape of our lives.
Lately I’ve been noticing a theme with family, friends, clients and myself who have become a little more critical of how “behind” they are from where they thought they would be by this time or by this age.
It’s easy to feel like different timelines snuck up on you or — wow here is another birthday! But it’s hard to remember that we may feel behind or out of sync because of the extreme global-scale shifts we have navigated in recent years.
It seems as though there is just this energy, this expectation to carry on. To resume. To act as if we’re okay. To almost pretend like it is not there, and never was. But when we do that, we minimize the effects of all this change.
Changes that no one gave us a manual for living through…or recovering from.
Your landscape has completely shifted over the past three years. Things you were doing (or just starting) back then might have been put on the back burner of your life. More responsibilities might have been dished onto your plate. Or some might have been taken away, and you didn’t know how to fill the new abundance of time.
In this episode I reflect on what I put on hold and what I’ve since been recommitting to at this three year anniversary. I invite you to do the same by looking inward and investigating what would help you return even more to yourself now. With grace. With understanding. With compassion.
Let me know what comes up for you as you listen to this episode. If you need some extra external accountability around what it is you’re recommitting to, drop a comment so we can cheer each other on.
Next week I’ll be releasing the second Monthly Meditation for paid subscribers only ($5/month or $50/year). This meditation will be a hypnotic timeline journey that allows you to connect with your past, present and future selves to foster a deeper sense of self-compassion for how things have unfolded, and who you are currently in your season of becoming.
Last call to join the spring season of Full Cup Club!
Need some help carving out the actual space and time in your calendar to recommit to yourself and your practices? Join and experience eight weeks of deeply held community space where you can pour into yourself and the things that you’re ready to recommit to now. Explore the program and the calendar here.
Deadline to enroll is tonight at 11:59pm EST! First call is tomorrow night at 7pm EST!
Share this post