Why Lockdown Inspirations?

April 2021

In early 2020, the shipping company I worked with had declared bankruptcy. When I had my last office day 12 months ago, I knew this change would be a chance to reshuffle my professional life. I had already been through a longer period of uncertainty, and the impulse was to refrain from anything that would support the old paths for a while. A challenging time had started that I consider a kind of personal lockdown – a dive into the unknown. Indeed I had no idea how it should work out exactly at that time. It was quite strange and unexpected, but to be honest, also kind of solacing to see I was united with many people in the world that were suddenly stuck in a situation of personal challenges, limited financial resources and restricted activities, while staying home, in the midst of the pandemic.

I spent my time with numerous trainings and seminars, live and online. First, it was my intention to shape my licensed activities as non-medical practitioner focused on psychology – an education that I had started already in May 2018. I wanted to prepare for the establishment of my own practice. In November 2020, I started my freelance business on parttime basis. 

On November 18th, 2020 – it was the time when the second pandemic lockdown had been pushed forward in Germany – I took the first video in what would be the start of realizing an idea I had in my mind. I had the wish to express my knowledge, not only deriving from my educational seminars and guided lessons in psychotherapies and personal trainings, but above all inspired from my most private experiences in life and the kind of inner research that I had started to practice about 10 years ago. Between November 2020 and early March 2021, I continued to take simple videos with my i-Phone about topics that got into my mind spontaneously: Inspirations for a meaningful life from my individual point of view. Although the videos were not perfectly made up, as I never did this kind of exercise before, they formed the foundation of my programme for personal growth.

Meanwhile, I have translated the video messages into an agenda with aspects that I deem important to consider for a life of awareness and meaningfulness in 14 steps, plus one optional extra step. They build the ‘Circle of Personal Growth’, a self-study programme that was gradually sharpened in a 12 months’ period of personal retreat, that might also be called my Lockdown Inspirations for you.

I hope you will be inspired and find much value in it.

Yours, Sabine