Recalibrating After 3 Long Years

My daughter was born on April 16, 2020. As she approaches her third birthday, I have been reflecting on COVID-19 and realizing how burnt out I am. Here is what I, and others have been doing about it.

Last month I was featured in the article, Parenting Through The Pandemic in Coastside Magazine, to share the unique challenges we faced as parents during the pandemic. We had to make terribly difficult decisions for ourselves and our children to keep everyone safe. The amount of fear we felt. As you can see in the first paragraph alone, it was tough for me to recount this time. Here is an excerpt from the beginning of the article: 

My daughter ended up being born on April 16, 2020. I have been reflecting on this span of time a lot recently as we approach her third birthday and this Coastside Magazine article was published. I am in disbelief that three years have already passed since the start of COVID-19.

Everyone’s experience in the past three years has been entirely different. For me, COVID-19 completely uprooted my life both negatively and positively. It forced me to my lowest point mentally and emotionally, but I also chose to take the opportunity (with a lot of support from my main squeeze) to re-evaluate and make drastic changes to my life. To read more about my experience and the changes I made, read my very first article The Magic of a Breakdown. (It’s a good one!) 

(Continue reading for three steps I used during this time of realizing and coping with my COVID-19 burnout.)