Small But Mighty Habits For More Flow (and Less Overwhelm)
How are you today? (I do really want to know. Please feel free to answer me at milisa@milisaburns.com. I’d love to read it.)
I am feeling better much today than yesterday. Yesterday, I had “one of those days”: I was tired and disheartened. The shooting in Nova Scotia, on top of everything else, made me feel so sad and even more tired.
Today, I can feel possibility and hope, and even some flow, even as I still feel sad. Yesterday and this morning, I doubled down on my self-care tools to help me. A good night's sleep helped a lot too, as did escaping by watching Tolkein's The Two Towers with my family.
When I get tired, I can get very “judge-y” of myself and others. (You too?) I feel resentful of my circumstances. I am in “lack”: everything feels lacking. It feels like there’s not enough of anything - not enough sleep, not enough support, not enough time. I feel like I am not enough for what’s in front of me. Everything feels overwhelming.
Maybe you can relate?
Being in lack and overwhelm is an obstacle to flow. ("Flow" in this sense, is that experience of living life with more ease and less struggle... when you generally feel open to life and to others around you, working with your circumstances, growing with them, rather than being consistently weighed down, or even knocked down, by them.)
I have been focusing on lack and overwhelm in the last few weeks, partly because I myself have been struggling with and learning from them (!) and because my friend and colleague Caroline Hopkins and I facilitated a workshop called Beyond Schedules last Friday to support fellow career-loving mothers who are overwhelmed right now.
This is an opportunity for us all, whether or not we are mothers, to be building on the themes from the workshop in service of more flow and ease, even in the midst of the pandemic.
It's never too late to Make Room For You!
Warmly, Milisa
PS: Here are two posts for your reading pleasure: Waves That Can Overwhelm Us And Knock Us Down; Are You Choosing To Be A Victim Or Creator In Your Life?
