Ok, it finally hit me today that things are really going to be different. The gym is closing. What am I going to do? This is how I start every day. As I started to go down the self-pity route, I heard about a daycare closing.

As you know, we’ve been given guidelines from the CDC on when and how to wash our hands. In reviewing these guidelines, it seems like it would be useful to incorporate a mindfulness practice into this daily routine.

It seems everyone is telling us to be calm, don’t panic. What does that even look like? How can we be calm when everything that we have known as “normal” is changing? Here are some exercises that may help.

At the risk of stating the obvious, there’s a lot going on! It seems like we’re trying to stay calm, but at the same time we feel like we have to get prepared. Within this frantic planning, people are talking about “hunkering down” and creating binge lists for viewing. What really concerns me about our plans to physically distance ourselves, however, is that this may also lead to emotionally distancing ourselves from others. And, that has consequences…