Imagine being pregnant, every night and day the siren of an ambulance on the streets outside your home and thinking "oh god, might me someone nearby", once a day a car sent around from the mayor saying To stay home, don't go out unless strictly necessary. This was 2020 in the first months in northern Italy, in one of the most affected cities by COVID. Oh and no masks to protect ourselves. We only found on Amazon some masks that are used to protect from toxic paints (oh you should have seen us!). I gave birth to my son in one of the hospital mostly hit by the pandemic, no preparatory course because everything was cancelled. What a journey! He decided I was spending too much time at home with nothing to do so he came 3 weeks early, 😁 yay. Unlike others, it wasn't exactly a slow period for me!! I have very happy memories of course and my partner and I could spend a lot of time together with our son, on the other side it was like a distopic fiction chapter. If I think now about being recluded in our homes, with a paper created by the government to be filled in and signed in case you had to go out to buy food (or go to work if it was a necessary job), no walks outside the house allowed unless you have a dog. Crazy, crazy times!
Luckily my family and I were lucky enough to be safe and healthy, unfortunately this hasn't been the case for many many others.
Thank you! ❤️He is a very smart and active boy 😅 it REALLY feels so surreal thinking about it, in some ways seems like it was a parenthesis that belongs to another time/space!
2020 has been poignant and pivotal in my enlightenment journey. As I spent my year living alone, away from the emotionally-detached/abusive household members (I no longer call them family, although I've forgiven them and moved away), I had plenty of time to look inwards to know what I actually wanted out of a relationship. My healing journey snowballed from then on, inspired me to go to another country and start a new life altogether.
Thank you so much for sharing this with me ... Your healing journey always starts with you and I'm sure if you keep being guided by that you will create a new life that makes you feel happy, safe and content. You are very welcome here too. Generosity of Spirit is absolutely about finding our inner strength guided by slow and gentle living 💕
Your reflections on 2020 mirror those of thousands, I bet. In a small way, I miss lockdown life because I quite enjoyed it. Right at the very beginning of the pandemic I adopted a dog and she has since become my entire world! I have never felt so free to spend (waste) so much time outdoors as I have since I got her.
Awww that's lovely. I feel like lockdown pets bonded with their owners like never before. So orecious.
I definitely feel like I learnt a lot through lockdown, and it was wild looking back and realising that so much of what I experienced, I then used as building blocks to a new slower life.
Imagine being pregnant, every night and day the siren of an ambulance on the streets outside your home and thinking "oh god, might me someone nearby", once a day a car sent around from the mayor saying To stay home, don't go out unless strictly necessary. This was 2020 in the first months in northern Italy, in one of the most affected cities by COVID. Oh and no masks to protect ourselves. We only found on Amazon some masks that are used to protect from toxic paints (oh you should have seen us!). I gave birth to my son in one of the hospital mostly hit by the pandemic, no preparatory course because everything was cancelled. What a journey! He decided I was spending too much time at home with nothing to do so he came 3 weeks early, 😁 yay. Unlike others, it wasn't exactly a slow period for me!! I have very happy memories of course and my partner and I could spend a lot of time together with our son, on the other side it was like a distopic fiction chapter. If I think now about being recluded in our homes, with a paper created by the government to be filled in and signed in case you had to go out to buy food (or go to work if it was a necessary job), no walks outside the house allowed unless you have a dog. Crazy, crazy times!
Luckily my family and I were lucky enough to be safe and healthy, unfortunately this hasn't been the case for many many others.
Thank you for sharing this 🙏 I do hope your son is doing well. What a crazy time it was, feels so surreal looking back at it all. ❤️
Thank you! ❤️He is a very smart and active boy 😅 it REALLY feels so surreal thinking about it, in some ways seems like it was a parenthesis that belongs to another time/space!
Thank you for sharing this, Emily!
2020 has been poignant and pivotal in my enlightenment journey. As I spent my year living alone, away from the emotionally-detached/abusive household members (I no longer call them family, although I've forgiven them and moved away), I had plenty of time to look inwards to know what I actually wanted out of a relationship. My healing journey snowballed from then on, inspired me to go to another country and start a new life altogether.
Thank you so much for sharing this with me ... Your healing journey always starts with you and I'm sure if you keep being guided by that you will create a new life that makes you feel happy, safe and content. You are very welcome here too. Generosity of Spirit is absolutely about finding our inner strength guided by slow and gentle living 💕
Your reflections on 2020 mirror those of thousands, I bet. In a small way, I miss lockdown life because I quite enjoyed it. Right at the very beginning of the pandemic I adopted a dog and she has since become my entire world! I have never felt so free to spend (waste) so much time outdoors as I have since I got her.
Awww that's lovely. I feel like lockdown pets bonded with their owners like never before. So orecious.
I definitely feel like I learnt a lot through lockdown, and it was wild looking back and realising that so much of what I experienced, I then used as building blocks to a new slower life.