Sweet Reader:

I am sure that you have heard more than one person make the comment that these are uncertain times. 

While life has always been and will always be uncertain, the current level of uncertainty has shaken us to the core and has many of us casting around for something to anchor into. So much of what we rely on has disappeared and there are so many unanswered questions like:

• what if I get sick?
• will I lose my job, will I be able to get another job?
• how will I pay my bills?
• will my parents be okay? my children? my family? my friends? my neighbors?
• how will we resume our social connections?
• will we have the confidence to be in the company of people again?
• when will this all end?

These are difficult questions and no matter where you turn there are no answers.  So, let me offer you what I am certain of:

1. You have been through this before
2. There are things you can absolutely be certain about (and you can lean into that certainty)

Let me explain….

1. You have been through this before – maybe not a global pandemic but there has been some event in your life where you have felt anxious, disconnected, isolated, uncertain, afraid, forced to juggle and madly rearrange.  You have faced uncertainty whether it was the end of marriage, the sudden loss of a family member, a new job, moving to a new city, a frightening health diagnosis, giving birth, a natural disaster….you have come face to face with uncertainty and you made it to the other side.  It might not have been comfortable or pretty, but you did it.  You are exceedingly more capable than you think you are and if you look at your life thus far, you will see that I am telling you the truth.  Lean into this truth now.
2. There are things you can be certain about – you just have to look for them.  As I write this note to you, we are coming out of a new moon.  This is the time of the month when the moon goes dark and you can’t see it in the night sky.  What I know for certain is that every time the moon enters this phase, it will come back into the light again.  I have witnessed this happening month after month, year after year.  This is also been taught to us by our ancestors – every month there will be a time of darkness and a time of light.  We will come back into the “light” and nature reminds us of this every single day. 

One last thought…. we never know from one breath to the next what is going to happen in life.  What if you could find certainty in the fact that life is uncertain?  What clarity might that idea give you?  How would you approach your day differently?

Turn towards yourself now.  Instead of looking for answers where there are none, anchor into your strength, resilience and your ability to face uncertainty with grace and messiness, fear and determination.  Life is changing and you have the capacity to change with it,  of this I am certain!

Love,

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Free Wellness Summit

Jodi Griffith from Wholehearted Sage and I have taken this time to collaborate on a wellness project that you might be interested in.  For the past few weeks, we have been recording conversations with the wellness practitioners from Sundragon Studios and posting the conversations on Facebook. 

I invite you to take some time to listen in on these conversations to learn more about different health modalities and to gather simple practices and tools that you can use to improve your health while you wait to get back into your massage therapist, homeopath or tarot card reader!

Visit these conversations on my Get It Dunn Facebook page or on the Sundragon Studios Facebook page!