Learn to Be Ok With Not Being Ok, and Teach Yourself to Ride the Weird

“You cant stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” -John Kabat-Zinn

There’s no denying that 2020 has been a challenging year. Take the happiness guru’s advice that you can bake banana bread to side step emotionally exhaustive experiences with a grain of salt. We’re all being challenged this year, some more so than others. Don’t feel bad. It’s a lot. You’re going to need to bake a lot of banana bread to side step it all.

We’ve been living through a pandemic, and the fear of the unknown, both physically, economically, and politically, is taxing, whether it affects us personally or not.

We’ve been cut off from our communities, or cooped up with roommates and loved ones. We’re facing the largest civil rights movement in history, and a political climate that will go down in history as well, no matter the outcome. All of it is calling us to summon energy we might not have in the first place. We will find a way.

Learn to accept that sometimes, you won’t feel ok. It’s usually like being jailed overnight; it’s not a life sentence.

It’s ok if it’s hard. It’s ok to not be ok. Social media and marketing can really skew reality in making it seem like…