Hey everyone you are listening to the going scared podcast and this is your host

Jessica Hanager founder of the social impact fashion brand noonday collection.

Hi how are we holding up? I've seen people are counting the days they've

been in quarantine. I can't even handle that. I can't do days, I'm doing weeks. I tell you one of the most eerie

things has been, but thankfully I wrote my calendar in pencil for the next three months and taking my eraser and erasing all of the things for the

next few weeks at once was really really sad and then also really liberating and I think we're feeling that right now. We're holding these

tensions. I listen to one of Brennay Brown's most recent podcast episodes all about if you are an over-functioner or an under-functioner,

over-functioners tend to be demanding, controlling, action-oriented, they're ready to solve the problem, they do

over-feel.

And under-functioners tend to be deer and headlights, paralyzed, lose some of their own competencies, and want to just be told what to do.

While I can vacillate between the two, I am definitely more of a classic over-functioner, high-high adrenaline, high problem-solver, and it hasn't

been until this week that I have felt actually in my body and more connected to my heart.

So I'm feeling my feelings now, which has been, it's been really good.

It's been really good to settle in and feel the feelings.

And I think a lot of what has helped with that

is just getting back to my normal practices.

So I've done 7 a.m. workouts.

I have gone to this tree that I usually go to after I drop my kids off at school

and I sit under this tree in my car and I do a lot of

contemplative prayer which is just quiet just saying quiet truths to myself

and just being still and then I've gotten dressed.

I put on my noonday earrings and jewelry every day this week and it I am feeling I don't want to say the word normal that might be a

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