Let Go and Be Free
Discover tips on self-healing, overcome a dysfunctional childhood and find happiness.
All my life, I’ve tried to fit in and be accepted by people. As a kid, I often thought that I must have missed out on the class at school that taught you what to do to be normal.
I didn’t like sports growing up but liked to study and read. I daydreamed about far off fantasy places that I had made up.
We often get many platitudes in life and nice sound bites such as “just do it” or “be true to yourself,” but there’s often not a lot of concrete advice on how to actually do the work that needs to get done to get from point A to point B.
Many “experts” have written volumes to help teach you what to do when to do it, and still, people suffer and struggle.
I lost track of how many days my family and I have been sheltering in my house due to the Coronavirus pandemic. I know it’s over 30 days, but life has been a blur with work, stress, more work, more stress, and trying to navigate dealing with anxiety and raising children in an uncertain world.
To keep my spirits up, I’ve added certain rituals to my normal routine. I write or exercise but I’ve added in daily meditation and then listening to self-help podcasts.
Pinch yourself. You are awake. You are here. You are in this moment.
Having grown up in an alcoholic/dysfunctional family, I often wanted to be anywhere but in the moment. I wanted to zip into the future to see a better day. I wanted to be out of the pain and suffering that I was living through, but by doing that, I often missed the beauty of the moments that are special and happen each and every day right before our eyes.
I continue to be in my time capsule as I am writing this at the end of week 3 of sheltering-at-home during the Coronavirus pandemic. I don’t know what you will think and feel about the word “Coronavirus” as I don’t know how damaging the pandemic will be to the world. I can only see the present, and it’s frightening as more than 51,000 people have died from the virus globally.
