Why You Might Be Feeling Off Lately And How To Navigate It

Creating a new rhythm.

Almost everyone I know is feeling a bit off lately. What was once their thrive zone and level at which they felt like they operated at a 10+ feels no longer achievable. I’ve been feeling this too.

The pandemic shifted so many things for people and it feels easier to try to go back to a time when things were working before this crazy chaos set in. Now that we’ve had some time to acclimate to “normal” again, we are noticing that our engine isn’t operating as it once did. I'll be honest and say that at first I thought I was unmotivated, uninspired, and that maybe something was wrong with me but then I started hearing the exact same thing from my community all over the world.

As I look deeper, this is what I’m resonating with. We were given an intermission in our lives as we created them and regardless of what the intentions were of said intermission, it was imposed upon us and now we are well into the next act into an entirely different play and trying to catch up. Meaning, who we were when the pandemic hit us is not who we are today. period.

We are sifting through a lot of truths, untruths, theories, gas lighting and division and whether we are simply dealing with the repercussion of the changes on an interpersonal, individual, or world level, . It’s real life and we are in new territory muddling through murky emotions that come with unknowns. Primarily fear on some level and that is a lot to take in and process every single day.

So yeah, we are tired. We aren’t operating at the 12 that we used to baseline function at. We feel pulled to spend more time doing what we love with whom we love which is probably not “job” related and we feel guilty becasue that was who society has groomed us to do, be, and feel.

This is the new. But it doesn’t have to be negative. Maybe the great reset could be to reevaluate what we feel called to do on a purposeful and truthful level not a external appearances level. Not what society as a whole wants us to do but to honor our own individual purpose and ask ourselves what would be worthwhile to fulfill our entire being in this life right now. This is an opportunity to redefine our lives around our values. Not the other way around. The past way. Maybe it’s time to rest more, do what brings joy and gift our physical bodies and minds some grace to transition in this whirlwind of an atmosphere that we are currently existing in right now.

Whether you are aware of it or not, it is affecting you on an energetic level in multi-layered ways so I say lets give us a break. Give us some grace and lean into what our bodies and minds are trying to tell us. Maybe it’s just to sit still and observe. whatever it is, recreating this new life in this new world is a gift. It’s time to lean into the love and put the hustle culture and push till you drop mentality to bed for now.