How Hygge Helped Us Transition Into Our New Normal

Life is flipped upside down for many of us around the world right now and it perfectly natural to feel all the emotional feelings you are feeling. We are all on our own journey to try and figure out our new normal; what it looks like and how we fit into it. For our home, the transition wasn’t as painful as I thought it would be, and when I looked at why one of the reasons pointed to our Hygge lifestyle. This is how Hygge helped us transition into our new normal.

You may be feeling overwhelmed with everything you’re trying to balance right now. The work, the family needs, the school needs, the after-school stuff that has transitioned to online as well.

All.the.things.

That’s natural and it is okay to spend however long you need to feel what you are feeling. To process what you are going through and try to find some sort of new normal that will work for you.

You will find that new normal.

How do I know this?

Because you, my dear, have made it this far in life and it wasn’t by accident!

So, please, show yourself compassion:

for needing the time to process what’s changed
for needing to figure out new technologies, and think of new ways to do what you used to do naturally
for learning to adjust to the constant interruptions in your workday as you work from home (and possibly the guest appearances your kids have on those online meetings)
for trying to figure out how to balance work, while figuring out what your “learning difference” child needs to get the lesson the teacher sent
for all the f-bombs you’ve now expressed when you once had a filter

I could go on but you get the point.

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How Hygge Helped Us Transition Into Our New Normal

The Hygge (pronounced “hoo-gah”) lifestyle was introduced to me a few years ago, and I discovered that many of my own intentional changes to our lifestyle aligned with this lifestyle. Could it be the time I spent on the farm as a child? Possibly. But I truly believe that it was a need to slow life down that drove these changes.

Many people are starting to wonder what is Hygge life as they search for their lifeline in this shift, we are seeing in the world today.

Hygge focuses on three things: comfort, calm, and connection. I call it the 3 C’s of Hygge and I expand on these three principles within the free ebook available for download today.

These are the core components that I found within the 30 days of the Hygge challenge I wrote about as I progressed through my own journey to introduce more Hygge in my life. From home decor to how we connect with others and what we do for self-care the Hygge lifestyle is heart-centered and helps to intentionally slow life down.

Recently, as we found our new normal, we were able to quickly change from what our life was to what we can do to shift into our new normal. Many of the Hygge evening routines didn’t change for us and it helped ground us through this transition.

In addition, the connection we had with each other has given us the support we all need to process our feelings as we go through our own individual journeys. Yes, we feel them still. Please don’t mistake this as a declaration that we haven’t had any challenges. The emotions are still all there, it is just that the day-to-day Hyggelig activities have helped us find our new normal.

I personally found that my anxiety was heightened during the beginning of all of this chaos. The uncertainty of what life held was triggering me in many different ways. In response, I created some Hygge dice games to introduce a little uncertainty in what Hygge activity I would be challenged with.

The Hygge weekly challenges have helped remind my brain that uncertainty can be exciting, it can be fun, it can be entertaining, and it can improve life too. (There’s a form at the end of this article if you want these sent to your inbox, or you can click on this button and sign up there too.)

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The Ultimate Benefit of Hygge Lifestyle

Before now, life for many has been centered around being busy. It was almost a sense of pride to have the schedule packed full of activities. To the point where it was a sense of pride knowing that we could fit all of these things in our life.

Productivity.

In truth, to be truly productive is not about being busy. I know because I’m a freaking productivity expert! It is about focusing on what’s important in the most efficient way possible.

So what does this mean for life today?

Now, many are finding that the biggest challenge is having to figure out how to slow down; figure out how to relax.

They are struggling, trying to get comfortable with calm.

This is normal, and if it is you. You aren’t alone!

The busy lifestyle has trained our brains to expect a go-go-go routine. The simple routine of multitasking affects the brain, so it stands to reason that the packed-full schedule will certainly create some habits. We’ve trained ourselves to hate the slower life, yet craved it. AND by filling that schedule to the max, we’ve also trained our kids’ brains to expect to be entertained and busy all.the.freaking.time.

Do we know how to just sit and enjoy nature?

Do the kids expect us to entertain them all the time?

What if we introduced some creative play? Would the kids know how to make it up as they go? Would we?

All good questions.

There a few things that we did years ago that helped slow life down and helped all of us adjust to our new normal. One was to stop over-scheduling the family. We intentionally changed this routine so that we could slow life down and help all of us to learn how to have downtime again.

In short, there are a few key things we intentionally did to help bring balance in our life, and the Hygge lifestyle was helpful in making that happen. Each time we go through a new season of life we adjust our priorities around our life goals to bring balance. The Hygge lifestyle has also made it easy to find that balance to what’s important to our family. It helped us during this time of uncertainty and helped us transition into our new normal. My hope is that you can find a way to find your new normal, introducing a little more comfort, calm, and connection into your life.