What, Me Worry?

I have been in deep reflection these past few months. Maybe you have been as well? I tend to like to be home alone, so a good deal of my time spent in quarantine felt rejuvenating and enlivening. On social media or watching mainstream media, the energetics I was met with were often astonishing. Panic, confusion, uncertainty, despair, anger and polarity was often too much to bear. Friends were arguing with each other, people shaming each other for their beliefs —a lot. Leadership that didn’t occur to me as what I understand leadership to be. Just people saying stuff that is inflammatory and contradictory and offering opinions as facts. Facts that shifted and changed hourly, weekly, from the end of one day to the beginning of the next. And it seems like many of us have gone into a free-fall.

What to Say When There's Nothing to Say

During these times where we have almost nowhere to go, some people I check in with are finding that they don’t have anything to say. Doing the same things over and over, some without work, some with work, yet a sense of restlessness, boredom, malaise is setting in. People are losing enthusiasm. Friends and neighbors and clients are sharing that even if they have work, they don’t seem to want to do it. Getting dressed into something they haven’t slept in seems like a bit too much energy to expend since..well, why bother?

CommunicationTerrie LewineApril 28, 2020communication, corona virus, relationships Comments

When Life Hands You Lemonade, Drink It!

This morning, while doing morning chores, I was considering on all the ways people have been sharing that they have more time right now, and either are, or are not doing the things they wished they had time for —back when they didn’t actually have the time, remember just about 4 weeks ago? For those who aren’t —why aren’t you doing those things? What is in the way now? Is it the story you might be telling yourself, ‘well, I didn’t want the time this way!”

Terrie LewineApril 15, 2020communication, goals, intentions, mindfulness, corona virusComment

Home NOT Alone ~ How Are You Doing?

We have all been home now, in varying manners of quarantine for approaching a month. Some of you are home with your families. All day. Every day. In my experience, living with roommates or significant others —sharing space we call ‘home’ presents challenges in regular life. Add in these Corona Virus circumstances of being together ‘always’ in all ways (workplace, play space, rest space, workout space, possibly homeschooling space, sleeping space —what else?) while navigating a cultural story that our lives are in danger, monumental financial concerns, and the uncertainty of when this might end, you might find communication getting problematic.

Terrie LewineApril 10, 2020corona virus, communication, relationships, healthy relationships, nonviolent communicationComment

Corona and Kids. What Are You Saying?

Your children are instantly navigating a new experience. Depending upon their age they don’t have the capacity to understand what’s happening in the same ways you do. For better and for worse. They don’t have the brain development to make meaning of what they are seeing and hearing. They exist more deeply on the feeling level. Not only are they trying to make meaning of the change in their lives, they are deeply impacted by you, the parents, their caregivers. In more ways that you might be thinking about. They are tracking on your every move.

What's the Upside?

You might think this is a blog on finding the upside of the corona virus lockdown that we are experiencing. Well it isn’t.It is the beginning of the story, yes. But it’s not the point. It is about what I always write about. How effective are you at being your own champion for getting your needs met?

Terrie LewineMarch 29, 2020corona virus, communication, therapy, positive thinking, mindfulness Comment

We Got This

This post is written by a friend. Alan Muskat. Alan is well-known as the Mushroom Man in Asheville, NC. He is a forager and takes thousands of people on walks through the woods. Alan and I talk often. We were talking about his business No Taste Like Home a few years back. In this conversation I remember him sharing something to me about understanding nature, the earth and foraging. It was then and remains one of the most profound wake-ups for me —living here in the city.

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