April Newsletter Article "The Bumpy Off Ramp from the Pandemic

April 2022 Newsletter

In this issue:

-Article: "The Bumpy Off Ramp from the Pandemic"

-Video Book Review: The two most important books to read to understand whats going on in the world today!

-Updated course schedule

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The Bumpy Off Ramp from the Pandemic

If this thing is “kinda over” why don’t I feel better? A valid question, eh? Let’s look at some answers:

1. Normal stuff got paired with danger and death for 2 years: talking to a person could give me Covid. Going to work could give me Covid. My vegetables could give me Covid (remember that one?) We had to condition ourselves to not do very normal things to keep us safe from the pandemic. This will take a while to deprogram ourselves. Don’t be surprised that you have “danger hangover” about stuff that’s back to normal again. And its all emotional! We have taught ourselves to fear VERY normal things. The unlearning will be tricky and take time.

2. We have buckets of unprocessed emotion. It will take years of focused attention to unravel all the emotion. You didn’t have time to grieve missing your favorite cousin’s wedding because you were busy home schooling your kids. Ridiculous piles of emotion that you didn’t have the time or the mental energy to resolve. It will all be coming to the surface now if you have the time, but now detached from the event. If you have found your self feeling sad or angry “for no good reason” it’s probably some of the unprocessed emotion coming to the surface. If you don’t take time to think about what you never had time to feel, I promise you, you will take it out on innocent bystanders like: Family members, co-workers, institutions, service people and total strangers. Start a list, EVENT + EMOTIONS I’m serious start a list.

3. Everything caused anxiety. Anxiety is caused by doubt and fear. Will this thing that I may or may not have control over kill me? But really kill me, not made-up BS in my head, kill me. All this Anxiety with no normal outlets to reduce my anxiety: being with friends, going to the gym, going on vacation.

I know I am wildly simplifying all the things that have gone on during the Pandemic but you gotta start somewhere. The big point is don’t feel bad that you don’t feel good yet. It will take time and focused action to unravel the last 2 years. Get started. Acknowledge it has been tough and let yourself feel so you can start to heal.

As always, we invite your comments.