• It’s okay to be interrupted

    (3-minute read) Okay, so it’s March 2020, my aunt passed away (not COVID-19 related), the pandemic hits the U.S. and we are ordered to shelter in place, my job issues a work-from-home (WFH) mandate for the foreseeable future, just as I was talking about career growth with my manager. I had no idea—like many of you—that two years later we would still be dealing with the effects of COVID-19…unexcepted deaths, illness, weight gain, anxiety, etc. My life had been interrupted. I got used to staying in the house day and night. It was all I wanted to do, even after the at-home mandate was lifted. I was used to going…

  • Normalize the Journey: Navigating Uncertainty and the Unknown

    2020 has been a year unlike any we’ve ever seen. Talk about change, uncertainty, and fear of the unknown! Whew! But can we please normalize the journey? Navigating through this year, and its aftermath will be a process. A journey is an act of traveling from one place to another. It’s the in-between that matters! So, can we make it okay for ourselves and others to take as much time as is required to process and figure it out? Keep in mind as you read this post, there is no one way forward, there is a way forward. And it’s yours. The journey is personal and individual. It will look…