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courbsh17 · 2 years

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BANFF, Alberta, Canada 🍁 🇨🇦 Day 1 - snowshoeing with @brianursic! It's wild who we run into when plan random adventures. I intended to explore Banff alone as I make my way to Sacramento to move Dan to New York 💕- I reached out to Brian, a good friend from Vancouver, to see if he's been to the area or had tips in exploring Banff. It turns out, he just moved to Calgary!! Wild- met Brian in Australia 🇦🇺 in 2017, met up with him in Nepal 🇳🇵 for our base camp trek in 2018, hiked Vancouver island 🥾 in 2019, and here we are again 2022 🇨🇦 This was a snowshoe trail in Kaninaskis region. We did about a six mile hike where I met the unfortunate comment of "you wish you could have a sustained Heart Rate of 178 for an hour" while he had no issues with his heart rate staying around 130.... I definitely need to get back my stamina! It takes certain experiences to expose the reality check of our health! (at Banff, Albert, Canada) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmFMpj8SwpH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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caitlinyardley · 7 years

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Nova

June 2017

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anastasiaoftheironwood · 4 years

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This article by Tara Haele on Medium discusses the challenges to maintaining one's mental health in the endless disruption that is 2020.

tl, dr: Our brains are not wired for endless stress. Be kind to yourself. Get help when you need it—and we all need it at some point.

"Ambiguous loss elicits the same experiences of grief as a more tangible loss — denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance — but managing it often requires a bit of creativity."

“While there isn’t a handbook for functioning during a pandemic, Masten, Boss, and Maddaus offered some wisdom for meandering our way through this.”

Accept that life is different right now

Expect less from yourself

Recognize the different aspects of grief

Experiment with “both-and” thinking

Look for activities, new and old, that continue to fulfill you

Focus on maintaining and strengthening important relationships

Begin slowly building your resilience bank account

I’m doing okay with most of them, most days (except when I’m not).

The one I'm not managing well is #2, which is a surprise to exactly no one. Part of the difficulty (aside from being raised by a perfectionist Virgo mother) was that, at the start of the pandemic, I was suddenly at home, since all of my business travel was cancelled. This gave me unexpected time to do many of the projects I always said I'd do if I were ever home to do them, so the first couple of months (after a few rotten weeks of adjustment), I was actually able to make a lot of progress. Then I hit the same slump as everyone else, and it's been a daily adventure (some days, more of a slog than a joyride) to keep myself motivated and focused. And some days, that just doesn’t happen.

Hang in there, take it one day/hour/minute/second at a time. Take care of yourself as best you can. Things will change for the better.

Image credit: Double Rainbow, Alberta Kaninaskis.

[Image description: A photograph of a double rainbow, highlighted by puffy white clouds against a blue sky. The foreground is dark, and the background has green grass and two mountains.]

#mental health #pandemic #surge capacity

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crystaldw · 7 years

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