When Dealing With Life’s Transitions, Make it a Priority to Stay Centered and Balanced

Swing the pendulum back

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Transitory periods in life are always difficult.

Aren’t they?

We’re swiftly stretched and thrust into a violent stormy sea. We’re called to swim between the chaos of mounting waves. Your view is obstructed. Your sense of purpose dilutes to the mere necessity: survival.

Do whatever it takes to keep going.

You now find yourself completely bogged down, tangled up in the knotted harnesses of work, family, friends, errands, projects, and responsibilities — trying to balance the myriad of activities while attempting to keep this ship afloat amidst all the uncertainty ahead.

You’re now thrown way off balance, left with no time for yourself. So much so that the very moment the waves scatter and the sun peaks its rays through the thickness of dark clouds, and you finally sit down to take a second to just breathe, it suddenly hits you with the weight of a limestone rock:

“I’m so exhausted.”

Quite honestly, this is how I’ve felt over the past few weeks. And for the first time since launching this blog in January 2020, I’ve gone almost six weeks without publishing an article or sending out a…