Good morning everyone on this blustery day,
For today’s reflection I wanted to share with you a series of five photos I found on social media that spoke to me in the midst of my recent experience of continuing on through this time of pandemic. Some of you may have resonated with the word that the New York Times offered for our experience at this time: languishing. If you haven’t already, I encourage you to read the article. As the author puts it – “languishing is a sense of stagnation and emptiness. It feels as if you’re muddling through your days, looking at your life thorugh a foggy windshield. And it might be the dominant emotion of 2021.”
Here we are on a blustery day, languishing in an ongoing time of uncertainty and slow progress – we need now more than ever to attend to our weary spirits and be reminded that we already have what we need in us and around us to be well and to be resilient emotionally and mentally through this. But people like therapist Esther Perel are helpful in distilling and making accessible small actionable tasks we can put into practice to ground ourselves, care for our hearts and minds, and stay as well as we reasonably can in the midst of all of the things.
So here are her “5 Small Interventions for Psychological Well-Being”