Rewire some of your rituals to thrive during quarantine.

We all need solid strategies to cope with this quarantine! It’s not going away anytime soon. Our methods may differ one from another, but some can have very common themes and application.

There are a lot of things we must do to live well at this time, so queue up your creativity to see the miraculous and mentionable amongst the mundane.

• Start your day alone in prayer and meditate on something of your Catholic faith. If you have a hot drink ritual, take it down the floor and stretch your body too.
• Begin with the kids by prayer and talking to see how they’re holding up. Kids may not understand everything, but let’s help them understand something: our hope! Also, a little chant music in the background sets a strong stage.
• Kick the kids outside more often than normal. They can snack, read, play or rest in the fresh air to avoid being too cooped up. Heck, so can you!
• When schooling the kids find a way to snuggle in and connect. Ditch the desk and snuggle so you are more present to one another.
• Cook and clean to a podcast or spiritual conference to reap continual inspiration. There are many series of talks which are underway and several more beginning for Holy Week. Many are done live, but more are archived. Tune in.
• Exercise a little harder, go a little further, lift a little more. Keep your health moving forward! Take the vitamins, apply the oils, drink the water, do the massage and get the rest. 
• Have some tech free time. We are all wanting to know the latest, but we’re probably missing the latest from our spouse, our kids, the saint of the day or the Scriptures, which seem to have been wonderfully written just for our hearts again today.
• Try to be more grateful for all the little things from the toilet paper in your bathroom to the salt on your food. Your family could start a list or you could be writing 10 things daily in a journal. You’ll remember all that you do have, which is still plenty.
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I like what Pope St. John Paul II has to say and I’m taking the liberty to assign its significance to our current world threat and inconvenience: 

"I hope, above all, that you approach this competition with that disciplined and focused attitude which helps to form every person and which can teach order, loyalty and respect for people and laws as well as being a training ground for building strength and dignified behavior.”

Look just a little deeper into what you’re doing today and find a way to rewire the rituals so that being home, safe and healthy with your crew is more attractive than anything you could go do.

Let us unite more closely with the suffering body of Christ at this time,

Coach Rebecca
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