I haven’t been able to write anything about what’s going on yet. These last few weeks have been particularly difficult to manage emotionally.
After two years of anxiety and a widespread feeling of insecurity caused by the pandemic, we face a potential nuclear threat. More than anxiety and insecurity, I have a deep feeling of grief and sadness.
I allowed myself to cry and feel everything in the first days of this war. But then we need to turn this inertia (I call it unproductive empathy) into some form of activism, so that this can all make some sense and we can continue to live our lives.
One of the most immediate forms of help I can provide, and which occurred to me a few days ago while meditating, is to put the strategies I use with my clients (and which I apply to myself) of compassion and self-compassion into service for all those in need.
Tomorrow, between 5pm and 5:30pm, I will host a session, via zoom, with the aim of sharing some useful exercises and strategies to help us navigate these difficult times with more emotional agility, with compassion and self-compassion.
It’s all so difficult already. This is not the time for us to add more (self) judgment to everything that is happening, but rather to be kind and compassionate — and we can start with ourselves.