What to Do When Your World Has Been Turned Upside Down
/You are definitely not alone in the time warp that the pandemic has kicked off. It’s been a over month since I posted last, and things have changed a lot since then. Many of us have seen the lifting of stay-at-home orders, and our cities and towns are opening up. Some of us are ready to get back to life, and others of us are more anxious than ever that things are “going back to the way they were.”
How are you feeling?
It wouldn’t be a surprise if you were going through a range of feels—anything from scared to angry, sad to happy, and all the variations on those themes. Feelings are colorful, and for a lot of us, the last few months have felt like an acrylic painting gone awry. Two of my clients struggle with pervasive fear. Another one experiences recurrent self-doubt. And another one is baking to avoid all the feels. All of these responses are entirely reasonable when the world you once knew has been turned upside down.
What do we do when … underneath it all we want to know:
What do I do next?
Will things be OK?
Here’s what I know to be true, y’all: That deep within each of us is a quiet center, the calm in the storm, that can inform our every move. I believed that when I was in my darkest of days, and that belief carried me forward in my healing journey. I just KNEW there was SOMETHING bigger than me that could help. But that something wasn’t outside of me. That something was deep within.
If we can learn to regulate our nervous systems, we can help our brains take rest (a mental savasana, if you will) and touch that indestructible, ever-calm inner wisdom that literally creates worlds. And from there, we’ll know a peace that never ends.
While your personal struggle isn’t known to me, the path to freedom from suffering is clear. What to do next? Listen deeply. While my human perception might tell me that things aren’t OK, in my soul space . . . things are always OK, I am always OK. And sometimes, just one moment of knowing that is enough to change everything.