What do you need?

I'm feeling very fortunate to have shifted into what feels like a new phase of quarantine. It feels like my brain is working again and wow, what a relief!

I guess we are all settling into the "new normal". For me, the first few weeks were about adjusting and reacting. The next few weeks were in some ways about grief and letting go, as well as acceptance (not endorsement) for the new reality.

And now, well, there are still ups and downs, challenges and frustrations, bad days and good days, but as I have immersed myself in a couple of new phases of work with past clients, I am feeling the sweet relief of getting to spend more time in my zone of genius.

I'll be honest, I don't think it could have happened without me letting go of online school, something I found just so incredibly draining. By focusing instead on what is energizing for me, the entire way I feel has shifted

I love my work so much that I feel like a completely different person to early pandemic Alethea. In some ways, it feels like some of the best pieces of pre-pandemic Alethea have come back and are integrating with the new reality and everything I've learned so far from this pandemic about living through a pandemic.

Something that has always helped is to ask myself: what do I need? And then to ask that of those around me.

To center on our needs and then to articulate them is healthy and responsible - it is about taking care of ourselves. To ask others what they need rather than assume to know is also healthy and responsible, but is often a step skipped over.

We can't assume to know what others need. We also can't assume others know what we need.

What do you need right now? And have you asked, what do your family and friends need? What does your team need? What do your staff need? What does your community need? What do the communities most impacted need?

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Banner photo by Nicole Geri on Unsplash. Also published on LinkedIn.