7/5/2023 0 Comments Stuck in limbo![]() ![]() That is - engage in activities that bring you back into the present - and do them regularly! Breathwork. So what do you do to make your way through Limbo Land? I’m there with you, as are most clients and people I speak to. ![]() If yes – take some comfort in knowing that you’re certainly not alone. Do you feel this sense of limbo? Wanting to forge ahead to a world post-pandemic, yet wondering how this is meant to look / feel / be? Acknowledging with resignation that COVID is not going anywhere, and feeling unsure as to how long it will take for the world of work, and the world at large, to find a sense of equilibrium after the huge shake-up the last couple of years has caused? Do you feel tired at the sheer mental load of it all? Yes – this is the future, but it still has its drawbacks and we’re still working out how to best do it, which will be a (long) process. ![]() Coaching clients complain of turning up to the office, only to spend the entire day sitting on Teams or ZOOM with their colleagues at home. Group workshops I facilitate are always hybrid, often with more people online than in the room – attendees muted with cameras off as they battle COVID or one of the many other ailments that have emerged with a vengeance after two years of isolation from each other. When it comes to my work as a psychologist and coach, the only certainty is constant uncertainty. I myself have somehow managed to avoid COVID to this point in time, despite being immune-compromised – but have a constant feeling of foreboding that my COVID ninja-like avoidance is only going to take me so far, and that that double red-line on a RAT is imminent. I have a myriad of friends who are suffering from the various ‘long COVID’ side effects – be it crippling fatigue, a nasty cough that sticks around for months, strange bodily pains, issues with cognition and memory. ![]() We distance ourselves from others in the lead up, crossing fingers and toes that we will avoid the dreaded Spicy Cough so we can actually get to said fabulous destination. When booking long-awaited holidays to fabulous destinations, many of us feel unable to completely count on the holiday going forward until we are seated on that plane. And fair enough – by all accounts, the last couple of years have been – as my grandma would say – a ‘doozy’.Įxcept it’s not firmly in the past. At least, we’re trying our very best to put it there. In many ways, it feels that COVID has been pushed firmly into the ‘past’ category. Rules and limitations around vaccinations and travel are fast dropping away. Well, lockdowns in Australia are now (and hopefully always - I married my husband for life, not for lockdowns!) a thing of the past, and people who choose to mask up at the supermarket are the minority, at last in my area. Indeed, life can very much feel like we are 'stuck' between two places - we've struggled through the toilet-paper-hoarding, 5km restricted, daily press conference days of COVID, to where we find ourselves today - trying to live a 'normal' life, while nursing the wounds gathered over the past two years and wondering what comes next. (As a side note, limbo can also be used to describe the border between heaven and hell, serving as an abode for dead unbaptized infants - but for the purposes of the article, and my agnostic status, let's stick with the first two definitions!) What does it mean to be in limbo? Collins Dictionary defines limbo as "an intermediate, transitional, or midway state or place" or "a place or state of imprisonment or confinement" I don’t know about you, but in many ways, I'd describe my current life experience as being stuck in a weird kind of Limbo Land. ![]()
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