No really, how are you doing?

I’m on the couch, dealing with the sickness again. Classes and services needing to be moved and canceled. Already not feeling great and these things still need to be done before the week starts. 2 Big projects needing my energy, need to be put on pause. My weekend has been filled with becoming one with the couch.

This time around it’s been so emotionally, mentally taxing, I mean don’t get me wrong the first time around was too but …… so many things.

Himalayan salt baths, yummy coffee, snuggles from my fur boyfriend Neil Diamond and amazing family soothe my nervous system. But it’s still been a lot.

A message from a dear friend in Colorado whom I haven’t talked to in a minute ask’s “how are you doing”? Fingers can’t type fast enough as I reply with “it’s been crazy, sick again, it’s been trying mentally, emotionally and physically.”

But it was nice to have someone ask “how are doing”.

Let us not forget to keep asking how each other are doing. Like really taking a minute to ask and listen.

I know we are all taxed. But that moment you take to ask someone how they are could be the most human, compassionate thing they needed in order to feel human again, instead of a machine that has been continuously operating day in and out.

Please continue to honor your energy and take really good care of your mental, emotional and physical selves. You are priority.

And one more thing……could you take a deep breath with me….

Notice the breath traveling down to the belly and up and out through the mouth.

Feel your feet on the ground.

In this moment you are alive and you are breathing.

Notice if you are sheltered from the outside.

Did you have nourishment food/water today?

Keep noticing your breath moving easily in and out of the body.

Could you take some comfort in being in this awareness: You are breathing, you are alive, your basic needs are met…..

I hear, I see you, I am with you.

Take good care of your self.

All my love & support,

Theresa