Is Everyone Overwhelmed?

It seems ALL OF US are OVERWHELMED!! Cue ‘Collective Compassion. What the heck is collective compassion?? As you’re bombarded with bad news from around the globe, your thoughts begin to spiral and your anxiety skyrockets. this collective grief - the sense that so many of us are suffering at the same time - can trigger a spike in the stress hormone cortisol and increase our heart rate. To help release the overwhelming emotions caused this shared grief, try a “visual” meditation, where you imagine dividing your worries into manageable chunks. Simply step back from the enormity of it all and choose a single worry to attend to at a time, such as your grief over so many of us losing our jobs. By allowing yourself grieve specific things over time, you can relax knowing you’re not trying to tackle it all at once. “Dealing with collective grief is a marathon, not a sprint,” says my husband Morty aka Funeral Director/Mortician. “So pace yourself and remember, if we can process collective grief, we begin to feel collective compassion in the world”