(Podcast) Covid Interrupted: Adaptability is Essential
Season 1 Episode 9.
We’ve all been thrown for a loop. It’s not that we’ve never experienced something in life that completely threw us off course, but we definitely haven’t experienced something that changed the world as we know it on such a broad scale for such an extended period.
We’ve been sitting with this experience for a couple of weeks, reevaluating how travel and adventure currently look and how they’ll look going forward. We’re examining the tools we’ve found ourselves using during our return journey and our time staying home.
It turns out there are many things about travel and adventure — whether with a partner, solo, or as a family — that are coming in handy: tools that help us stay a little more sane, communicate better with one another, and use our time effectively, while also honoring that things are weird and we need to be good to ourselves.
In this episode we talk about two of the most important aspects of spending so much time together while maintaining a healthy personal existence: adaptability, and discovering and making room for our fundamental needs. We share how this works in our life, both on the road and staying home during a pandemic. We hope it helps you and your family now — and definitely when the road trips start up again.
Don’t stop that dreaming and scheming! We’ll see each other having adventures very soon.
On an important note: Cristen recently lost a high school friend to a silent struggle, and she’s noticed it’s been a devastatingly frequent occurrence over the last few years — particularly with men. Tending our mental health is something all of us need to spend time on. For some of us it’s hard to imagine a mental and emotional landscape that could lead a person to take their life. But for others — many more than we ever recognize — it’s a fight they contend with every day.
In our view, tending your mental and emotional health is like going to the gym for physical health, and — if the everyday choices we’re making aren’t addressing our bigger concerns — like going to the doctor for a check-in. Our society doesn’t talk about it enough, because getting a mental-health check-up IS normal, it IS acceptable, and it may save a life. If you’re questioning your own need to check in with someone, please talk to a trusted friend, call your doctor, or reach out to one of the resources below.
Resources: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline — call or text 988. Crisis Text Line — text HOME to 741741. Trevor Lifeline (for LGBTQ young people under 25) — 1-866-488-7386, or text START to 678678; TrevorSpace community at trevorspace.org. Veterans Crisis Line — dial 988 then press 1, or text 838255. Online therapy — TalkSpace (talkspace.com) or BetterHelp (betterhelp.com). Find a local therapist at psychologytoday.com. Postpartum support — postpartum.net or supportingmamas.org; moms can also connect through The Adventure Mamas Initiative (adventuremamas.org). Support for new dads and partners — postpartum.net/get-help/resources-for-fathers.
We want to keep seeing you out there dreaming, planning, and doing your adventures, too.
