Navigating the New Normal of COVID-19

Welcome back to Light Body Radio! This week I have a special treat! My good friend and colleague, Julie Ford, and I got together to bring you a special episode on “Navigating the New Normal”. As we all adjust to the dynamic that COVID-19 has brought upon us, we talk about how to find our grounded calm, acknowledge and move through grief and so much more! Join us this week for a lively conversation and take away some tools you can use today!

In today’s show, we offer you something to ponder, to practice and to play with.

To ponder:

“One day when you wake up, you will find that you have become a forest. You have grown roots and found strength in them that no one thought you had. You have become stronger and more beautiful, full of life giving qualities. You have learned to take all the negativity around you and turn it into oxygen for easy breathing. A host of wild creatures live inside you and you call them stories. A variety of beautiful birds rest inside your mind and you call them memories. You have become an incredible self sustaining thing of epic proportions. And you should be so proud of yourself, of how far you have come from the seeds of who you used to be.”

– Nikita Gill, You Have Become a Forest

 

Practice -

1. Honor and mourn/acknowledge the loss of OLD Normal

2. Be open to the possibilities and ways to thrive in NEW Normal

3. Choose to take small, do-able steps toward creative solutions in NEW Normal.

The meditation that I led us through - at min 26:30 - 32:00. It's a beautiful 5 1/2 minutes. So CALMING AND GROUNDING!

Play with-

Step 3 - creative solutions- Make it FUN!

Have a dance party! Movement is GROUNDING!

Tools of Life is written and produced by Julie Ford of Julz of Life where we've been supporting parents and teens as they navigate the challenging richness of raising the next generation. This stage of life is full of our own "remember when" and "oh boy, here we go" moments that we can choose to either DREAD or RELISH. No stage of parenting (or life…) should need to be endured. Let's enjoy every stage.

For more tools of life from Julz of Life, contact Julie Ford at julie@julzoflife.com or follow Julz of Life on Facebook and Instagram. The Tools of Life Podcast is available on 8+ channels including Anchor.FM, iTunes, and Spotify.