Let’s relate through our own experiential incompetence to continue to build competent, caring relationships! Being vulnerable together is a fast way to strengthening relationships.
However, even he acknowledged this week that none of us knows how to handle what we are dealing with right now. My 96-year-old father is “wise” because he’s seen a lot in his lifetime. Here are five points to consider when you feel that social distancing has forced you into physical isolation in an overly quiet or an overly crazy household filled with children or adults who are climbing the walls: As one of my employees recently commented, “There’s nothing like a pandemic to bring us together!” It’s happening now-in grocery store lines, gas stations, and offices –all around our social world. We are going through different versions of the same experience, and that serves as the basis of connection to each other. It’s triggering frazzled emotions as all of us experience our carefully made plans and visions for our near-future rapidly changing it’s as if our crystal ball for imagining what will be happening in the coming weeks just cracked. In fact, it provides us all the more reason to relate to one another in this ever-changing social world.Īll people worldwide, who are tuned in and aware of what’s happening with the COVID-19 pandemic, are experiencing similar but somewhat different problems to solve based on how it is impacting them, their families, and friends. Social distancing does not need to drive us apart.
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