Can you believe that we are in September already? Where has this year gone? In spite of lockdown and the enforced time that many of us spent being isolated within a tiny bubble; here we are at the end of the summer already.
September – harvest time, start of autumn, children back to school. Even though we don’t have such defined seasons these days, September is a time of change in the pace of life and there is hope this year that this means the return of a little more normality for many of us as more businesses are able to return to work on the Park, more colleagues are able to return from furlough and children fully return to school.
There is such a wide range of experience of this time with different levels of furlough, different home situations to be isolating within and different experiences of Covid-19 that it can be hard to find common ground at times. We are all individuals with very different responses even to the same situation (think about the very different ways that each of us view and then remember an incident). How difficult then might it be for us to empathise with each other’s experience and reactions to this surreal time that we still find ourselves in? Why should that matter?
Perhaps empathising with others can help us to gain perspective and more awareness of our own reactions. We often internalise things and then find ourselves responding on an emotional level to circumstances without us having acknowledged the impact the situation is having on us. We also often notice things in other people that we don’t realise are reflections of ourselves.
I’m always happy to swap thoughts on this while wandering around the duck pond and surrounding areas on dry Thursday lunchtimes between 12md and 2pm.
In the meantime, on the rainy Thursdays, or if you don’t manage to catch up with me outside, as always you can contact us via email on info@mitechaplaincy.com where you can request a call-back, or you are very welcome to call me directly on my mobile: 07526 378529 either to chat or to arrange a time to meet.
Debbie.
We also have a range of resources on our web-site including some that are more specific to the Covid-19 outbreak and some that help in dealing with stress: https://mite.org.uk
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