I love those old wartime posters telling us to keep calm and carry on, but it has to be said, it’s not always quite that easy. Yes, most of us women spend all day ‘carrying on’, keeping our homes running, working, looking after our loved ones, doing a thousand jobs no one seems to notice… until we stop doing them. Because sometimes there comes a point when you feel as if you just can’t ‘carry on’ any more. And given all the challenges we’ve had to cope with in the past year and a half, I think that feeling is hitting us more than ever before.
It might seem odd that it’s now, as things finally seem to be easing a little, that we are feeling overwhelmed by the situation, but that’s just human nature. And the good news is there’s lots you can do to improve how you feel. We’ve devoted this month’s Dossier, starting on page 51, to helping you overcome this feeling, calm your mind, shorten your to-do list and give yourself a break. The point of dealing with this emotion isn’t so you can get back to being your most productive self, it’s so you can get back to being the real you, while taking little steps to feeling happier and less stressed. I hope this helps.