Finding steadiness when nothing feels steady at the moment.
Recently I heard the renowned therapist, Esther Perel , capture exactly what I have been asking myself. She put it something like this: "how do we find a sense of ease when the ground beneath us is constantly shifting at the moment?" As I continued to listen to her podcast, I realised with a sigh that she was not about to offer a quick fix. We all know that uncertainty is a natural part of life but there seems to be rather a lot of it right now. Nothing seems as steady as "before". Even the weather seems to be changing more rapidly than I remember. Not long after our early spring sunshine came an abrupt change of season producing hail and sleet. I went outside to experience the only snow of the winter, which lasted for moments. This week produced more windy weather, with the sea becoming a wild, muddy brown landscape sending roaring waves onto our beach once again. As I swam on a fairly windy day I was immensely aware of the power of the sea as I moved with