Home is Where the Heart Is By: Marcie Anderson | Corporate Wellness Consultants |http://www.corporate-wellnessconsultants.com
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e have all faced our fears at some point in our lives. Did you have a fear of flying? When your best friends’ wedding was an event you could not miss, you somehow overcame your fear and made it to the celebrated event. The fear of public speaking, fear of speaking up in a crowd, afraid of receiving public ridicule or negative judgment, but after doing so, many in the crowd came up to you and thanked you for your courage. By doing so and trusting your gut, now each of them feels more confident to engage and participate. Was your fear of asking someone for forgiveness or telling someone you loved them, for fear of being rejected? We have shared experiences of overcoming our fear or not. We share this in common as individuals and as a global collective across all ages, races, genders, cultures, and economic status. Now, in the face of a global virus pandemic that affects everyone in one way or another, it can certainly feel as though fear has won. It may feel as though fear has brutally
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extinguished the light of faith, hope, and love in everything. Let’s stop. It’s time to re-focus. Now is the time to truly wake up. There has never been a time like this on the planet precisely like this. Humanity has endured tragedy, loss, massive change, severe conditions, and brutality, and yet there has always been one common thread to overcoming adversity. That unbreakable, unshakeable, ever-resistant, and timeless thing? Love. The pandemic is forcing us to slow down, dial back our hyper-space paced life; we are experiencing perhaps for far too long. A silence. For some, this silence is making their skin crawl. It’s bringing up a mirror from which to turn inward upon themselves, and many are not wanting to face what they see. You want to run away, but everything that has helped you keep running for all this time is taken away. Now what? A few things to consider,
