Intention.

I will not give instructions to tell you exactly what to do. I’ll just share more of what I do personally, so that maybe you’ll be inspired to find a practice of your own.

We can all use more calm, more cheerfulness, more of the good stuff that humans give to each other in tough times. 

This is one way I can share it with you—a way that might help you renew whatever you are aiming to bring into your world.

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Strategies.

In these, I explain how I renew my calm and process other emotions:

• 5 Breaths for Collective and Personal Grief

• How to Navigate Chaos

• Fast-Twitch vs. Slow-Twitch, Reactive vs. Responsive

• Choose how, not what.

• Add joyful times to balance out the painful ones.

• In a murky middle, what do you choose to build?

• When the stakes are raised, how do you respond?

• Give yourself room to feel and make meaning while history-in-the-making unfolds.

• Words are bridges.

• Grief and joy can co-exist.

• Expand your creativity past what you think it might be.

• When you feel helpless in the face of history-in-progress, lean into the change that exists in your ordinary life.

Techniques.

These are some of the things I actually do to renew my calm. Feel free to pick and choose:

• Self-Compassion: Make your mind a nicer place to live.

• Nature & Adapting What Worked Before.

• Make Something, Write Something—or Just Read Something.

  • Make something silly.

  • Seriously, even if things are really tough, make something that makes you smile.

• Encourage Goofiness.

• Pause, Process, Play Around, & Proceed.

• Reread. Revisit. Return.

• One Curiosity, One Sentence, at a Time.

• Create normalcy. Create Meaning.

• Take a leap. Feel ALL the feels.

• Some emergencies are marathons, not sprints. You can choose how you show up for them.

• “We’re all standing at the edge of a new dream.”

• Make room for unfocused time.

• Find a reason for doing what you’re doing that has more to do with love than with fear.