Have You Been Dealing with a Storm?

Have you been dealing with a storm? ⛈️⛈️  I am here in Texas and we are unfreezing from a winter storm.

A lot of my clients lately have been in their own storms lately.  They are dealing with issues with family, old wounds, work challenges, and internal battles that just don't seem to have a cause.  Issues that have felt overwhelming and, at times, awful.

Has this been you? 

The guidance that has been coming through lately is about reframing the storm.  Changing your thoughts about what the storm is giving you. 

Most of us have been programmed to look at the negative in our storms.  Focusing on the yuck you are going through is natural, but it can make a yucky situation even yuckier. 

So what happened in our winter storm?  One of the ways I relax is by gardening.  I love my plants.  They give me peace.  And this week, the weather was not kind to them.  4 days of below-freezing weather isn't great for the plants that usually grow in my backyard. 

My natural tendency from years of programming is to focus on the negative, and to plan for the worst.  In reality that does not help.  It just makes us worry more in the middle of a fairly yucky situation.  It compounds the actual problem, with an imaginary future problem that might not happen.  

So when I started to feel bad about my garden this week (the first column below), I reframed my thoughts into the second column.  The picture next to this is my blackberry plants covered in ice.  

What is in your first column for your storm?  Use this worksheet that you can download here to reframe your thoughts.

Let me know if it helps!