By Jessica
No matter how expansive, joyful and rich our lives are, we all go through challenging times.
As life goes on, and we spend more time on the planet, we all encounter situations that challenge us, stretch us to our limits and cause us stress.
We can shift our mindset to minimize stresses in everyday life, practice gratitude, cultivate ease and create more joy in each moment—but life gets tough anyway!
Whether it’s a profound event like a divorce, a major illness or the loss of someone close—or a big transition like a move, a career change or retirement—sometimes we hit a patch where life is just more challenging than usual.
Even though we’ve been cultivating wisdom all these years, when we’re on a growth path, life keeps hitting us with new experiences. We don’t always know how to handle them!
When life gives us challenges, it’s even more important than usual to take exquisite care of ourselves... and yet, that’s usually the hardest time to remember to do that.
So what can you do? Here are a few things I’ve found useful for nurturing myself when life gets challenging.