Internal resources: THESE WILL HELP 👩🚒
Interior AF. Image: Lezende vrouw aan een tafel, Adolf le Comte, 1860 - 1921, Rijksmuseum. Used with permission.
Hello friends!
I've been writing this blog and my newsletter since 2011. In nearly ten years, I don't think I've ever used it to fundraise for charity, but today is different. Your local homeless shelter is extra burdened right now. If you can cut them a check (or an additional check), please do.
T H A N K Y O U 🙏
Now then: I am just so glad you're here. Over the year that was this past week, I have appreciated our connection more than ever.
This week, I am sending hopes for your continued physical health and mental stability. I'm also sending something better than hope: practical assistance. Here are some at-home sanity-building resources I'm using myself, and they're all F R E E.
From editor Carrie Frye of the Black Cardigan Edit, a daily planner: The Sequester Checklist. This one in particular is giving me life right now.
From cartoonist Nicole J. Georges, a duo of hand-drawn morning pages to download and print.
From Mason-Dixon Knitting, a piece I wrote on what to tell yourself when you're fretting.
From my friend feng shui expert and sister coach Áine Atara, a set of suggestions to make the best of staying at home with some simple tweaks--for your home.
From writer Heather Havrilesky, aka Polly and her evil twin Molly, the straight dope on how she works at home.
All this because I imagine you are, in fact, staying at home! If you are not, I refer you to microbiologist Dr Siouxsie Wiles, and the graphic pinned at the top of her Twitter. TL;DC: for GODSSAKE please stay home. (Thanks for the tip, Amy W in Wellington 👏)
Also because I imagine that you are feeling some anxiety, and I believe that taking control of what we can, like our daily routines, moving our bodies and getting some protein and eating at predictable times as much as we can--hopefully with family--really helps steady us.
And also because I want to be of use to you, and my way of doing that is to remind you that stress eating doesn't complete the stress cycle, binge eating just leads to self-loathing, eating a ton of sugar doesn't actually lift our mood, and anyway, you can start breaking all those habits by eating meals at mealtimes, wow I just never tire of writing that but if I ever did I could set up a keyboard shortcut, couldn't I.
Okay, that's the week! Let me know how you're doing and how I can be of help. xoxok,