064: Personal Reflections From COVID-19
The KICK-ASS Stepmom Podcast
Jamie Scrimgeour
4.9 • 723 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
When COVID-19 started, amidst the 'what the eff happening?" panic that was induced from all the stress, I decided that I was going to try and make the best of it.
Even on those really hard days when I found myself sitting in my car to prevent myself from losing my mind, I knew that some really good things were going to come out of COVID-19 for me.
I'm talking for my business, for my mental health and for my personal relationships.
In this episode I share the top things that I've taken from COVID-19 - that I will carry with me as life gets back to our "new" normal.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, it's Jamie Scrimter here, second wife, stepmom of three and mum of one. |
| 0:06.9 | And you're listening to my podcast, where we talk about all things motherhood, stepmotherhood, |
| 0:12.4 | and living a kick-ass life. If you're ready for raw and real conversations and are striving |
| 0:17.9 | to live your very best life, then you are in the right place. |
| 0:21.5 | Every week, I'll provide you with tips and strategies and mindset shifts to inspire you to |
| 0:27.1 | live your own version of a kick-ass life. |
| 0:29.0 | We'll bring you along as I create my own. |
| 0:36.6 | All right. |
| 0:37.3 | Hello, hello. Welcome back to the podcast. So this episode is just me, just me here on my own. And I thought that I would come on and do a little reflection on COVID-19 and where my heads at as things start to reopen and we get into our new normal. Now, I am recording this podcast. I believe |
| 0:57.2 | it's week 10 of the COVID pandemic for me, basically 10 weeks after the kids' school was canceled. |
| 1:04.1 | I'm kind of laughing now because I look back on the day that we were told that the kids |
| 1:08.5 | wouldn't be going back to school or there's going to be a two-week break. And part of me was like, oh my God, how am I going to survive? And now here we are, |
| 1:15.3 | 10 weeks later. I did survive, but I had no idea what we were in for. Now, I will say, this pandemic, |
| 1:23.2 | as hard as it has been, I've actually really enjoyed a lot of it. And I'm sure it comes as no |
| 1:31.2 | surprise that I've done a lot of soul searching during this time. And at the beginning, |
| 1:35.8 | despite being like what in the flying F is happening right now, like is this real life? Because |
| 1:41.4 | sidebar, think about this. A virus has basically taken over the world and shut things down. |
| 1:46.6 | Like, this just sounds like a movie, not real life. |
| 1:49.4 | But several times during those what the F moments or during the struggles, I did think to myself, |
| 1:56.6 | what if this could be one of the best things that ever happened to me. |
| 2:01.7 | And despite going a bit stir crazy and feeling overwhelmed with the kids and working from home and staying up to date and on |
| 2:06.0 | the school and the extra financial stress and all of that, I have had that mentality all along. |
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