This is Jenny Allen and you are listening to the Made for This podcast.

I feel like the number one question I am asking people right now is how are you doing?

How are you really doing?

And I think I ask that because when everything's spiraling and spinning and chaotic you just kind of want to look in

people's eyes which usually happens through Zoom or FaceTime and hear that they're okay in the

midst of this crazy and yet that they're okay in the midst of this crazy.

And yet that answer to that little question right there,

how are we doing?

How am I doing?

How are you doing isn't simple?

And I want to talk about today, I want to be super practical today. I want to talk about the spiraling not going on around us, but the spiraling going on inside of us.

So let's just take, for example, my you are going to talk back to me and you're going to look me in the eyes and say how are you doing Jenny I'm going to answer you and I'm going to show you how I'm doing

so given the So given the day, given the day, I'm great. I mean great. I have all my

kids home. I have you know food that I'm actually cooking I get to do so meaningful work

I'm great and in the same day I'm absolutely a disaster I have anxiety so thick that my chest hurts physically.

I have had to quit watching the news because I can't sleep if I watch it and I have to read my news now. I am frustrated with my

kids even though they really haven't done anything but be kids. I am cranky that I'm a homeschool parent all the sudden because I also have a job and I'm

wondering about the welfare of my team and our organization and our personal finances for the year to come. And on a given day

a given day too, I'm sad. I'm so sad because I miss my parents and I don't know

when I'm going to get to see them again and I worry about them and I want them to

be okay.

And I'm sad because some of my good friends have already contracted it and aren't out of

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