#5 Blanche - Happiness Therapist

“ Individually, we are a drop in the bucket. Together we are an ocean."

— Ryunosuke Satoro —

Your good plans to follow:

@bliss-stories When she talks with her guests about pregnancy and childbirth without filter we love it. And when his children take the controls and transform Bliss Stories into Radio Corona, we sit ours on the sofa and let them listen to the daily life of these confined young people and their amusing questions.

@carolinedemaigret Confined with two brilliant musicians ready to make our evenings a little more rock, Caroline de Maigret offers Stay The Funk Home sessions every evening where we submit the song we dream of hearing and where we listen his two acolytes Yarol Poupaud and Victor Mechanick play it for us live on guitar and drums!

@collectif_solidaire Normally, Bastien is a delicious caterer and home chef in Paris. Due to a lack of receptions, and full of kindness, he puts his talent at the service of hospitals by delivering them home-cooked meals via the Collectif Solidaire association.

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Your current favorites:

@etsionsouriait Positive thoughts, inspiring words, a dose of hope that brings balm to the heart...Catherine Testa shares her optimistic vision of life and situations like the one we are experiencing at the moment and damn, How good it is to see things from this angle!

For those who, like me, would like their current sporting activity to go beyond going back and forth between our room and the fridge, we can find what we're looking for among the hundreds of live and free daily classes that Sports Planner lists on its site . Yoga, Fitness, Pilates, Strengthening... you no longer have excuses!

@zoedelascases The very creative and poetic universe of the famous Zoé is a delight. She regularly shares with us her DIY ideas full of sweetness to do with the family, and from which we draw inspiration to reproduce them as much as possible.

BLANCHE’S MOOD POST

This great classic of literature is first and foremost a testimony to American society during the Great Depression, the most significant global economic crisis to date... fingers crossed.
But this story, inspired by a famous news item from the 1930s, is above all that of a lawyer, honest and courageous, appointed to defend a man probably wrongly accused because of the color of his skin. .and told through the eyes of her daughter, a 7-year-old tomboy, for whom injustice is already unacceptable at her age.

“Shooting a mockingbird is a sin” according to the saying which refers to these small birds from the South of the United States whose sole purpose is to charm us with their song. It's attacking an innocent person, an easy prey, who only wants to live his life peacefully. This is what this admirable father tries to instill in his children in this novel with detective overtones about childhood, prejudices and solidarity.

Don't Shoot the Mockingbird - Harper Lee

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Normally it is already difficult to take a few moments for yourself between your work, your relationship, your children and all the various constraints of everyday life...
After a month of confinement, having to juggle all these elements without the usual relays that we benefit from, we can quickly become overwhelmed. It is therefore normal to feel a certain fatigue and the desire to take breaks. (And I don’t even dare talk about our exceptional caregivers)

With the current period pushing us to slow down and refocus on ourselves, it is important to find the time to carry out activities that voluntarily give us a certain pleasure such as playing sports, nourishing our mind, having fun, taking care of ourselves physically and internally, or just sleep, hang out and do nothing...that's a luxury!
There are no injunctions in there but only advice to set up this time for you - me-time as the British say - if you feel the need.

So rather than always putting others before yourself, making excuses and risking burnout, here is what you can do:

We initiate a schedule, for us only, or to share with other confined people, and we note the time, even short, that we wish to allow ourselves. We organize our day around this moment rather than trying to fit it between our imperatives.

We change our usual rhythm, and we take advantage of these many free evenings that await us for another month, to dedicate them to us, just to us.

We accept not doing things perfectly and we seize the slightest opportunity to grant ourselves a little well-being without waiting for the optimal conditions to be met. (No, your boss and the children cannot disappear yet!)

And above all, we don't feel guilty, we observe the good that this break brings us in the middle of (tele)working, house maintenance... and we accept that the better we will be in our head and in our body, the more we will be able to manage other daily tasks without becoming exhausted.