How to strengthen your community during community spread COVID-19

How to strengthen your community during community spread COVID-19

As we watch events unfold over the past month like a complicated origami swan, we have seen restaurants send food to the homeless shelters by the truckloads, see school staff driving in buses to deliver meals safely to kids at home, and businesses change protocols to account for the needs of the community.

If you are like our family and feel compelled to find a way to give back to your community as they have given to us, here are a few suggestions:

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What to do when empathy and boundaries collide

What to do when empathy and boundaries collide

Empathy is meant to interrupt fears, to interpret experiences internally and to be felt deeply. How can we can elicit empathy WHILE maintaining healthy boundaries in our relationship with others and ourselves?

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ON RELATIONSHIPS: On Intimacy [trust]

ON RELATIONSHIPS: On Intimacy [trust]

Trust, like empathy and compassion, is something that can best be built within the individual - it begins with exercising trust toward self and then can overflow to build stronger relationships with a partner and to develop deeper friendships.

We build relationships through building trust.

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