Need some lockdown solidarity? Here’s 20 minutes of it, with a real and honest chat about our experiences, and insights, from the ongoing Victorian lockdown.
Jade’s juggling kids on the farm in Stage 3 while Catie is chucking tanties at her laptop in Melbourne’s Stage 4. We hope this little small glimpse into our everyday is akin to a virtual hug.
Caveat: There's no one experience of lockdown, nor prescription for doing it right. We acknowledge our relative good fortune while honouring the tougher-than-tough reality of so many others.
SHOW NOTES
- Why Catie's brain is like wet cake
- Long funky days at home with kids
- Wired brains and screen-impacted sleep
- Solidarity!
- Finding daily patterns for consistency and reassurance
- Why this enforced localisation is giving us the chance to take a microscopic view of our local turf
- Sharing a daily lunch with family - snack plates + kids
- The value of accepting this period of wartime-like grief
- Seeing a psychologist is a mental multivitamin
- We are experiencing acute instability
- Grief/joy/love are combining to create empathy for others
- Human adaptability
- At least there's no FOMO!
- Willingness to be vulnerable; we are all in this together
- The value of maintaining perspective
- The value of repetition and order
- Diving into abstract, artistic, creative concepts and classic literature
- Loving those at home
- Letting joy be your compass - harking back to our childhood loves
- Why we don't have to have a picture of the new world we want. Nature is emergent; let's be open to unfolding solutions
- Seeing the beauty in the immediate
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