Since the eclipse it’s been crazy town.  We live in Florida and Irma is on the way.

Fridge died.  Computer died.  Electrical on brand new car failed. Roof leak, main plumbing line burst, show up to our 4th graders school on lock down from crazy man waving a gun and a dead possum (yes and just as strange to write)…..

More happened, but nothing compared to the intense emotions of sadness, anxiety, terror, love and gratitude I felt all week in the pit of my stomach.

Now Irma is on the way to our home state.

So how can I function with this knot of terror, this sense of immense fear and with the flipping of anxiety churning in my gut?

I just start.  I keep it simple.  I think about, and only do the bare minimum.  Sometimes I break my days into segments, and only think about what needs to be done between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m.

This narrow focus helps me keep things manageable.  For my emotional well being, I confided in trusted friends who could accept my most vulnerable state without judgment or the need to give advise.

What I needed was comfort, and support in remembering that everything would be ok.

Similiar to ptsd, a gnawing pit of terror can be debilitating.  So it’s important to take life in the NOW moments.  It’s important to share the fear with a trusted confident.  It’s most important to drop all judgment about how it feels, why it feels this way, and what feeling this way means.

Feelings can just be.  We can let them just be.  We can acknowledge their presence without digging around into them, judging them, attempting to alter them, or isolating because of them.

If we can just trust the terror will pass, the feelings of wide open vulnerability without any defense against emotional pain will pass and allow our hearts to be exposed to and loved by people who want to give back then we will return to emotional stability sooner and with less collateral damage.

Know that you are loved.  You are supported.  You will be ok.  Being vulnerable is the highest vibration on the intuition highway.  It heightens our senses.  It helps us have empathy.  It gives us an opportunity to see another’s point of view.  So use it grow.  Use it to stretch who you think you are.  Use it to allow love into your life.