Grounded Presence During Hard Times

This too shall pass.

As we move into schools opening during a fourth wave of Covid, the IPCC report to the UN on the climate emergency, Haiti and Afghanistan, many people are feeling overwhelmed and despairing.

In our Sunday community classes in September, we’ll explore from a trauma and nervous system lens how to actually implement the wisdom in the many cliché’s about hard times. Into every life some rain must fall. Hang in there, it will get better. This too shall pass.

“The peace we are looking for is not one that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos.” Pema Chodron

I was thinking back to my situation of the summer ten years ago. My mother had died the previous November, my siblings and I were at odds, the company I worked for had been taken over and my job would soon end, and I needed to leave my long term relationship. I was struggling, frustrated, angry and sad. My siblings and I reconnected that fall, my grief over mom’s death softened over the years, I left the relationship, moved to Nova Scotia near my son and family, and as my other job ended, developed the work I do now.

Thinking back to challenges in your life, what is your relationship to the events now? What were you dreading? What was your catastrophic thinking predicting might happen? How…