Welcome to Entangle. I'm Patricia Carvis. Each year we like to reflect on the top five things we've learned from our wise and inspiring guests. Choosing just five is always a challenge. This year, to say the least, has been unusually hard to navigate and often heartbreaking.

So much of the wisdom our guests have shared has been especially supportive.

It's invited us to do the best we can to stay steadier and grounded and to learn new ways to care for

ourselves and our families.

This year has also underscored the

importance of cultivating our internal resources. I do hope that as we close out 2020 and look

forward to 2021, we're feeling more introspective than isolated, and I hope that we're even

feeling a little more connected to what's most meaningful in our lives.

We may even have a better sense of what it means to be human, especially when faced with the most unexpected challenges.

We frame the top five as questions so we can keep reflecting on these together.

We'd love to hear what you've learned this year

and what sparked your curiosity. So please send in your thoughts to Untangle at choosemuse.com.

Here are the 2020 top five from us. Number one, how do we gracefully deal with uncertainty?

This has truly been a year of unprecedented change

and uncertainty. But the truth, says Diana Winston, head of the Mindful Awareness Research

Center at UCLA, is that uncertainty is always a part of our lives. It has just become a whole lot more pronounced this year and has, for better or for worse,

invited us to slow down, which can be quite unfamiliar and even unsettling, but also maybe

kind of nice.

Another positive note, says Emily Fletcher, Ziva Meditation Teacher,

is that many of us have used this year as an opportunity to reflect and reset and to examine

what truly matters most in our lives. Number two, how can we become more aware of our implicit and explicit biases? We all have

biases that are a product of our families, communities, education, culture. It's how we're

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