Create Your Best Post-Pandemic Life Using Your Core Values

As the world slowly moves into a fuller reopening, many of us (me included) are grappling with questions around our reemergence.

At the outset of the “great pause” in March 2020, I opened the Wisdom Lounge at SWC (now transformed into a monthly Women’s Wisdom Circle) to provide a safe welcoming space via zoom for our wisdom seekers to process the pandemic experience.

What came up often was a discussion of what our lives would be like on the other side of the pandemic. One thing I heard a lot was a desire to go back to something better - a new normal that didn’t look exactly like our lives before.

I keep harkening back to those conversations to remind me not to rush headlong into doing the same things I did in the pre-pandemic days, without thinking, based on habit. As part of that process, I am reminded to consider my core values as a sort of compass keeping me moving in the direction I intentionally choose to go.

This article has some great tips about how to identify your core values and then put them into practice in your daily life.

https://goop.com/wellness/spirituality/how-to-determine-your-core-values/

Even after you have worked through your core values and contemplated what you would like your post-pandemic activities to look like, it is important not to expect too much from yourself and to go at a pace that works for you.

This article has some ideas about how to manage any anxiety that may be coming up around these issues.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-man-cave/202104/tips-post-pandemic-life

Join us on Thursday, June 3rd at 7:00 p.m. for the next Women’s Wisdom Circle where we will begin to explore how to create our best post-pandemic life using our core values.

We can’t wait to welcome you!

With love and light,

Denise