Shannon's Corner

Re-entry demands a unique blend of endurance, resilience, and spiritual fortitude. Pacing yourself effectively in re-entry will ensure that you maintain capacity and energy throughout the race while navigating the hurdles of re-entry efficiently. Maintaining rhythms of gratitude, reflection, patience, and kindness will equip you to pace yourself effortlessly in this race called re-entry.   Let’s check in to see how you are doing in the race of re-entry. 1) What is your mindset?  2) What are you visualizing? 3) How is your pacing? 4) How is your stability? 5) What is your posture? 6) How are you navigating transitional stress? 7) Where are you in the journey of grief? 8) How is your personhood being impacted (voice, power, and relationship)? 9) How are you engaging in reintegration and acclimation? 10) How have your roles and purpose shifted or changed? 11) What is the snapshot of your wheel of well-being look like? 12) What does settled mean to you? 13) How are you flourishing...

  Crossing the finish line of re-entry will look and feel different for each individual and family. Settling is when you start finding stability in your life —of becoming accustomed to new surroundings, routines, and rhythms. Being settled involves a sense of comfort, familiarity, and security. It’s the point when things stop feeling chaotic and start feeling predictable and manageable. Being settled signifies reaching a state of stability, peace, and comfort in one's environment or situation.   Settling is the foundation for flourishing to take root. The journey to flourishing involves overcoming challenges and finding the right rhythms between internal resilience and external support. Those who succeed in flourishing often inspire others by demonstrating how change, though hard, can lead to incredible growth and transformation. It’s about finding your place, being known in your community, embracing new changes, and growing stronger with each new opportunity.  I am home....

Our well-being can be out of sync as we are walking through transition. It is essential to take a pulse on our well-being because it directly affects how we feel, function, and experience life. This assessment will identify the dimensions where we are low or lacking health and will show us if we are able to cope with stress, recover from adversity, and maintain healthy relationships out of healthy or unhealthy ways.    Take a moment to color in what percentage you are at right now in each of these eight dimensions to give you a snapshot of your well-being. Physical wellness – understanding and maintaining your body’s nutrition, physical movement, and sleep needs. Emotional wellness – coping effectively and creating satisfying relationships. Intellectual wellness – being creative, innovative, being curious, and expanding knowledge and skills. Spiritual wellness – expanding your sense of purpose and meaning of life. Relational wellness – developing connection, belonging, and com...