Is it yesterday again?

To deny feelings of frustration, sadness, anger or fear is to ignore valuable insights into how to cope with challenging times.

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In lots of ways, the biggest challenge I’ve found during the pandemic has been the sheer relentlessness of things: get up, get dressed, make coffee, check emails, do work, do some meetings, do some more work, make some calls, eat, do some more work, another coffee, put the laptop away, eat, watch some telly, go to bed, start over the following day.

As a single parent, my duties also include homeschooling, so since the start of this year, that Groundhog Day has included: get my children ready for the day, lesson planning, lesson teaching, educational and emotional support, making food, making snacks, juggling meetings and long zoom calls with questions from both my clients and my children (sometimes at the same time, often with similar levels of importance ranging from very to not at all), and so on.

And then of course at this time of year, there’s also all of those pesky ‘New Years resolutions’, the self-assessment tax return, the “plans for the year ahead” (without really know what the year ahead might look like).

Generally I’ll come back after the holiday break with a renewed sense of energy and optimism for what’s to…