Need some lockdown solidarity? Here’s 20 minutes of it, with a real and honest chat about our experiences, and insights, from the ongoing Victorian lockdown. 

Jade’s juggling kids on the farm in Stage 3 while Catie is chucking tanties at her laptop in Melbourne’s Stage 4. We hope this little small glimpse into our everyday is akin to a virtual hug.

Caveat: There's no one experience of lockdown, nor prescription for doing it right. We acknowledge our relative good fortune while honouring the tougher-than-tough reality of so many others.

SHOW NOTES

• Why Catie's brain is like wet cake
• Long funky days at home with kids
• Wired brains and screen-impacted sleep
• Solidarity!
• Finding daily patterns for consistency and reassurance
• Why this enforced localisation is giving us the chance to take a microscopic view of our local turf
• Sharing a daily lunch with family - snack plates + kids
• The value of accepting this period of wartime-like grief
• Seeing a psychologist is a mental multivitamin
• We are experiencing acute instability
• Grief/joy/love are combining to create empathy for others
• Human adaptability
• At least there's no FOMO!
• Willingness to be vulnerable; we are all in this together
• The value of maintaining perspective
• The value of repetition and order
• Diving into abstract, artistic, creative concepts and classic literature
• Loving those at home
• Letting joy be your compass - harking back to our childhood loves
• Why we don't have to have a picture of the new world we want. Nature is emergent; let's be open to unfolding solutions
• Seeing the beauty in the immediate

LINKS YOU'LL LOVE

• Dumbo Feather Magazine
• Bleak House - Charles Dickens
• Sand Talk - Tyson Yunkaporta

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