Episode #36 10 Easy and Practical Tips to Survive Self-Isolation

Well, this is a whole new world and no, not the Ariel kind in Little Mermaid either. It's a lot scarier than Ursula could ever be. That said, there's also a lot to be hopeful and grateful for. One thing is if you're reading this and/or listening to me then you're alive and hopefully well. So that is a great place to start from...the rest is a little bit more complicated to say the least.

A month ago the entire world looked totally different from what it is now. As you well know life has almost instantaneously stopped for a huge part of the global population. We've all had to press the pause button in our lives and businesses. If there was a time that we wished we could work from home (to avoid that darn commute) or that we would stop saying "yes" to everything that we're invited too and spend time at home - we may be wishing for the opposite right about now.

To a lot of people being ordered to stay at home can be really difficult...and I get it. It's different when you have the choice to stay in and not want to see other people. It's a totally another thing to be ordered to stay home. It's in our nature to want something we can't have - and right now, what we can't have is the freedom to move about this world in the way we want and choose to. But here we are, in the middle of this pandemic and we know that staying home is what we must do to not only protect ourselves and our family, but also other people in our community.

But it does't make staying home any easier. Having had some personal experience in this space, I wanted to offer my tips on how to survive self-isolation. The tips I'm giving will seem like no-brainers, but you would be surprised that many skip doing them because of that exact reason. These are the steps I personally took to get through 18 months of self-isolation and I know they can work for you too - if you apply them on a daily basis. And if by chance you fall off the wagon and binge watch a few days of Netflix - it's okay, just get back on again. We're just trying to figure this out as we go.

Everything that we are experiencing individually and as a human race is new to all of us, no one knows exactly what's going to happen - the experts may have more information to go on than we do, and even they are giving it their best guess. So take comfort that we're all in this together and the only way out is through. We will see each other on the other side of our new normal and we will be more resilient than ever.

In the episode I mentioned that it's important for you to reach out to your community of friends, family and/or colleagues, but if they are not available to you, then call the numbers below to speak to someone that's here to help and lend an ear. We all need each other more than ever before right now.

Disaster Distress Helpline: 1-800-985-5990 or Text "TalkWithUs" to 66746

Wishing you, your family and loved ones to be safe and healthy now and always...xoxo Cat