COMMUNITY
COMFORT IN WHERE WE OVERLAP
By Nina Richter, Self Love Club founding member, friend, and fellow Superhuman.
In March we found ourselves stuck in quarantine having to social distance and shelter at home. We each came to it with a different set of circumstances. Maybe you have been isolated alone or with small toddlers needing entertainment 24/7. Maybe your kitchen table is now a classroom, or you suddenly find yourself with adult children under your roof. Perhaps you have older parents or grandparents to care for. God bless, maybe you are one of our frontline heroes keeping us safe or providing us with much needed goods and services. Whatever your situation, I’m guessing your sense of community changed, either physically or emotionally.
Begging the question, what exactly does your community look like now? Instantly we lost daily exchanges with our local barista, the bank teller, walking down the street and running into someone we knew. Handshakes and hugs became taboo. We lost the hello as we entered the gym heading to our daily work out. In one quick moment everything changed.
As that sense of community began to change, little did we know, a new one was emerging.
Behind the scenes, Jen and Maurice work tirelessly to engage, reach out, and offer us what we lack most - daily human interaction. They took this new situation and created a place where we began to overlap and interact again.
Superhuman Soul brings us together! Superhuman Soul is a part of our new community taking care of us physically. Superhuman Soul brought us Self Love Club- a forum no more perfect for these two than Burpees and Namaste. Creating a place to regroup and focus on the silver linings being discovered every day, taking care of us emotionally.
A sense of comfort returned; a sense of fellowship unfolded. Community, as we knew it, changed, but this new community offered even more.
For me, the Self Love Club became a moment to look forward to. A moment where thoughts are exchanged without judgment, where we are pushed to look at things with deeper introspection, all while creating a new community of friends.
In this uncertain world, SLC has helped me to find a moment of peace inside and out. If you have not taken part, I urge you to try.
While the Corona Virus may have changed the way we currently live, I hope it has offered you a reminder of what is important, and as someone we know says, that you are worthy.
Maybe, like me, it has brought forth a new community of friends where kindness and joy exist, and comfort is found in the spaces where we overlap.
Thank you Jen and Maurice!!!!