Shutdown Times & The Cute-O-Meter
Dear Ones, Today, is day 13 or 14 or 15 of being home. Not so sure. What a time it has been riding the waves that come with the full spectrum of emotions for each of us. The newness of it all brings high discomfort at times and deep gratitude for the ordinary given these times of uncertainty and quarantine. We have our health, our jobs, and each other so this is abundance. Those of us quarantining with young ones, highly sensitive ones, a-typical ones, neurodiverse, or highly movement-seeking ones might be seeing some emotional or physical regressing these past few days and weeks. Maybe we are seeing ourselves regress in surprising ways too. Perhaps your child in wanting to fall sleep on your bed, some might halt potty-training, others might revert to eating the same things or not eating at all because nothing tastes right; yet others will show more physical forms of self-regulating like stimming, pacing, eloping or moving in a repetitive pattern over a larger ar...