At Surge Capacity and a Nation in Grief: Why It’s Time to Clean the House

By |2022-11-15T14:06:22-05:00October 30th, 2020|Categories: coronavirus, Mood, Parenting, Seasonal Changes, Self-Care, Wellness|Tags: , , , , , , |

Anyone noticing that just as our annual cultural prediction of “fall cleaning” arrives, that indeed you are inspired to tidy the house? Anyone else observing that in this week's climax of election angst and COVID cases rising nationally that you move between being frozen and then finding small comfort in seemingly insignificant completed tasks (like a clean bathroom or empty dishwasher)? And is your tolerance too for overstuffed drawers and piles of paperwork suddenly feeling unbearable? I think I have an explanation (with married concepts from modern psychology and the lens of Chinese Medicine).... In Eastern philosophy, we think of the Fall months [...]