How Do I Hug my Brain?

Is your brain tired? 

Mine is! We thought 2021 was going to be better than the infamous 2020, but it was rough!! Now here we are just a few days into 2022, and I’m sitting (all masked up) in the doctor’s office waiting for chest x-ray results. I hope your year is off to a better start, but it seems like everywhere I turn, folks are dealing with really heavy stuff.

I’ve been thinking about how I can be a support to the helpers who are being asked for SO MUCH right now – nurses and teachers and parents and leaders and front line workers and more. I burst into tears on a call this week with some of my safe big critters because I was holding so many feelings – grief and gratitude, loneliness and I-need-some-space-or-I-will-scream, frustration with yet another Covid outbreak, uncertainty, and overload. 

​I know you have 43 other things clamoring for your attention today. 

Will you pause with me for 30 seconds right now to recharge?​

First, take a breath and say to yourself, “I am deeply loved.”

One more breath in and on a long breath out, say “I am not alone.” 

Fill your belly with air one more time. As you slowly empty your lungs, stretch out the word “peace.”

It’s like a little hug for your nervous system. 

There is a lot that is out of our control right now (always, really, but it seems especially in our faces at the moment). Will you take a moment to give your brain and body a little love? 

Let me know how it’s going!! Join the conversation on Instagram all month long!

I’m so glad we’re in this together!