Finding the Throughline with Kate Hanley

Will schools be back in the fall? Is it safe to fly, and even if we decide it’s safe, will flights be canceled? If you’ve been furloughed, when will you get called back? Will you get called back? How long will COVID be part of our mental calculations. There are just so many things we don’t know. And that is a really tough place to be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, I am not posting new episodes this week. In this quick episode, I explain why I'm participating in the #podcastblackout. I'll be back next week--and in the meantime, let's stay connected on Facebook or Twitter (where I'm KateWHanley) or Instagram (katehanleyauthor). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s big idea is how to make change in a socially distanced world. After all, all the problems we had before Covid are still there. Many of them are getting worse--economic inequality, violence against black people. Elections are coming up. We’re stuck at home. What can we do? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There’s something about quarantine that’s good that’s not all peace, love and understanding. And that is being crabby and salty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I remember after 9/11 happened when George W Bush addressed the country and said the most important thing we could do was go shopping. I remember thinking, really? Buying stuff is important now? We’re feeling that same tension today, as staying home saves lives but it also kills businesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today I'm interviewing Emma Johnson, founder of WealthySingleMommy.com, about how to foster resilience in our kids as their world is completely changed. It's easy to say, oh kids are resilient, but how we talk to them and treat them has a TON to do with how well they weather tough times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now that we’re forced to slow down, doesn’t the hectic pace of our former lives feel a little insane? Is having a jam packed schedule where we’re wringing everything we can out of every moment something we even want to get back? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quarantine has forced us to embrace new things. This isn’t always easy for us humans, as new things mean change and change can be scary. Like it or now, the quarantine has forced us to be inventive. One of my favorite examples of this is the Ministry of Silly Walking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our relationship to food has been going through a transformation these last few weeks: more meal planning, more cooking at home, and more whole foods. There’s been stress baking. And stress eating. And food insecurity. What about the way you've been eating do you want to carry forward? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As we’ve all stayed home, we’ve let a lot of things slide on a personal care level. And I wonder, how much do we WANT to carry forward? Is this an opening for all of us to be more real in our appearance? Let’s break it down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today I'm talking to someone who's a whiz at building and nurturing relationships to share how we can keep up the connections we've made during quarantine--and what meeting people in the future might look like. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just like we want to take a clear-eyed look at the positive changes that quarantine has brought about and decide what we want to bring with us as we re-emerge, we also want to think about what we want to leave behind because it really didn’t serve us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week and next, I’m going to be taking a look at the things the quarantine allowed us to experience that maybe we want to keep around, even when we’re starting to re-emerge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It feels SO GOOD to get out and do some of the things we used to do. But just because it’s technically OK for us to get out more, it’s not a get out of jail free cards--the virus is still circulating. You really want to be able to be mindful about the risks even as you soak up how good it feels to be around other people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A huge piece of minimizing an outbreak of any infectious disease is called contact tracing--it’s the tedious, old-fashioned work that takes a lot of humanpower. You and I can help with this effort big time by keeping a journal of everyone we’ve come into contact with. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During this time of Covid, we're all needing to beef up our science skills so we can stay up to date and make the best decisions for ourselves and our families. It's not enough just to take the information in, we've got to process it and then put it into practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the most tough to swallow pieces of life in the time of covid is that we don’t know what’s going to happen. The opportunity it presents is that we are getting a fabulous opportunity to learn how to roll with things. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week is devoted to exploring how we can re-emerge from quarantine mindfully. I’m kicking things off with a really deep, perhaps unpleasant, big idea. And that is, that as much as we are eager for things to “get back” to normal, there is no going back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let’s take a look back at this final week, which was all about calming down in your own mind. Mindset shifts are subtle, a little squishy, even, but they have so much power to shift you into a better state overall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All we can do during these times is roll with it as best we can. And that requires you to surrender. It isn’t giving up. It’s really just laying down your resistance. It means you get to stop putting effort into trying to change things you can’t change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SO excited to be talking to Jill Miller, author of "The Roll Model" and creator of YogaTuneUp.com, as she is honestly one of the BEST people I know to talk about how to help yourself calm the eff down. Jill shares the 5 tools we all always have at our disposal to help us feel safe and at ease even when it feels like the world itself is unsafe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...

For those of us quarantined with other people--especially parents with kids--there is a whollllllle lotta together time. In many ways, it’s great. But alone time is also how we catch up to ourselves, process our emotions, and recuperate, kind of like Superman heading north to hang out in the fortress of solitude. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So....about that time I cursed at a total stranger, right to her face. Cursing is cathartic, but it's also a slippery slope. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this second week of the challenge we’ve covered ways to reduce stress in your relationships, so that whether you are cooped up together or separated from each other, you can still feel connected. Here's a recap as well as an assignment for the weekend that helps you put it all together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When you get frustrated, remember that we are in really weird extraordinary time and let that help you lower your expectations about everything. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices