Feeling unsettled

Today I am deeply reflecting on what I observe around me, and importantly how people around me are responding to a barrage of news and headlines.

I spent the last weekend outside of news cover on beautiful Bruny Island, the sun came up in the east every morning and it set in the west every night..

These are times where communities and humanities are truly being tested, with less support around us we are more vulnerable to be drawn into crisis if not panic mode.

Here we go again, stockpiling toilet paper - flour - long life milk - fuel…..

The more we follow the news and social media headlines, the more we add to the situation by responding like a flock of …(you fill in the missing word)

I invite you to consider muting the amount and amplitude of news and inputs you allow yourself to be impacted by.

Is your preferred source of news depending on advertising, could it be that the channel is baiting their audience by increasing the font size of their headlines?

I propose that self care and self love have rarely been more critical and important.

What can you control and what can you not control.

What is the true value to yourself and those depending on you if you are in crisis mode?

Ask yourself, in what way does it serve you to spend time doom scrolling (if you admit to doing so), how is that going to be helpful to you and those around you?

Can you limit your exposure to once a day maybe?

What can you do with the time not spent worrying or surfing for drama and headlines?

Have you got someone who could help you, be with you, join you in conversation and activities (walking)

Breathe, live and look after yourself and those around you.

Remember, ..’’it will all be good in the end - and if it is not yet good it is not yet the end’’ (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel)