Working from home, taking care of the kids, household, home-schooling and being forced to stay inside with your loved ones who are trying to do the same IS chaotic and overwhelming.
Finding time for yourself, your work, self-care and handling all your responsibilities can be extremely difficult now. Even if you don't have kids.
Worries, fears and anxieties can take over. You might feel so drained and unmotivated.
You might feel that you need to fight or take a flight. Or freeze.
It's okay to have all those feelings and feel exhausted.
We've been locked down for almost 4 full weeks now in Spain, so I can relate.
The first thing to do to change these feelings is:
Give yourself permission to feel those feelings and then, forgive yourself for having them. Accept where you are, right now.
Also please, please, know that you are doing a lot (more than you know) and going through a lot.
I know work can be as demanding as it was before. If you have a family it can be that your bosses are not understanding your situation at home with the kids and that it's impossible to respond to those demands like before.
I know how it works, I had over 13 years in the corporate world.
It could be that your business is under thread and you simply can't work right now.
I get that too! As an entrepreneur, I needed to sit down to create new offerings, strategy, and plans. After I dug myself out of the darkness I momentarily dropped, I created new ideas that I'm working on now and… they are actually super fun and I have no reason to avoid doing them anymore (you will see this in social media and my emails)!
I realized I thrive in challenging situations.
I've gone through so many drastic shift storms, so I know deep down in my gut that the obstacles are the way (you maybe want to check out the book by Ryan Holiday, it's quite fantastic) — I will always get up and get back on track, even when being a bit wounded.
Like you too! You have gone through so many obstacles in your life that now it's time to remind yourself of the hardest ones!
But it also means that I also need to calm, change my thoughts and re-connect with myself with breathing consciously multiple times a day by using the Clarity tools and habits to relieve the overwhelm daily!
I am empowering myself to trust I will make my visions true while I have to prioritize how to use the very limited time I have for working, and self-care as I'm balancing all this with my husband, cooking, and child care.
Instead of letting your inner stories overwhelm you and believe everything is falling apart, you can take responsibility for how you feel, what's happening around you and help yourself feel energized.
Now it's not time to push yourself to do more but stop to see where you are and focus on self-care.
That will make a HUGE difference in how you feel right now and release the anxiety, worries and overwhelm.
Like my mentor Marisa Peer says:
You are in control and you can control your thoughts that are creating your feelings.
That doesn’t mean to stop doing things but focusing on your needs; self-care, healthy, productive habits and using the tools that are helping you to create a structure for your days. So that you get things done more efficiently is helpful right now.
Looking into how you do things and helping yourself feel better, will give you more time and energy.
To help you in this situation I have put together a list below of the resources to relieve the unwanted feelings and help you feel, calm and focused in this crisis - while trusting in your own abilities to get through this with high confidence.
Little action makes a huge difference and releases the negative energy from the body.
Anytime when you hopeless, please remind yourself that this will pass!
We can get through almost anything just knowing that it doesn't last forever.
Get the free mini-course self-empowering tools and methods that will not only help you navigate through this feeling calm, focused and connected but create structure, healthy habits, self-care routines that you will benefit from forever!
Much love and courage,
Jenni