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An Introverts Guide To Social Distancing.
It’s easier than you think.
When the call for social distancing and social isolation came in I noticed one thing — My life didn’t change all that much. Haha, that made me laugh.
Oh. I thought. Is that what I do naturally? It must be. At this time in my life I have been very insular, i’m going through a huge change with therapy for resolving childhood trauma and I have self isolated myself to really pull in and understand what i’m going through. It wasn’t a choice for me in fact, life just kind of happened that way. Every time I tried to go out into the world and experience something as per usual it would be too stressful or something would happen that had me reeling back into my home environment.
This is a similar time for humanity in many ways: many of us are spending more time at home than we’re used to, there’s more fear in the collective, more concern for the general wellbeing of ourselves and everyone we know and love, some that we don’t know but love anyway, and let’s face it life is busy for most people because we keep ourselves busy; we live in a busy world. So I understand how uneasy feelings can arise when we slow down. Since I am a year ahead of this particular curve I thought i’d write down some of the advice that I used in social distancing in my own experience to slow down, and to bring more joy to my life…
