Hey there, so as we head into 2023 so many of us are feeling this uncomfortable blend

of hope and possibility but also caution and concern.

And while there's this sense of emergence, it's also still coupled with a perpetual

sense of groundlessness, high stakes uncertainty.

And I think we're all starting to realize that that new normal, the one we've all been

waiting for where you get to go back to a place of relative calm, it's actually never

happening.

And the truth is the old normal for so many, it was never a place of peace and ease calm

or grace.

So what do we do with this?

When the circumstances of our lives, our relationships, our work, health, sense of security

are perpetually in flux.

We'll sure some things we can control so we step in and we exert whatever agency we have

in those domains, but still so much of life is and will remain a swirl.

So how do we come back to a place of relative peace and ease of relative intercom regardless

of what the world delivers to our front doors?

Our ability to do this is so central to the ability to live good lives.

And also to our ability to access a state of presence and grace and gratitude that lets

us even notice what is good and true and nourishing even when much around us remains hard

or uncertain.

So how do we cultivate a sense of calm of grace and ease, both on demand when we need it and

in a more sustained way even when the world around us seems to keep tugging it away?

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