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In April 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Nicole Peyer, 44, of Oakland, CA, was furloughed from her job as a sales consultant for a national wine and spirits distribution company.
After four months, Peyer was rehired, but her needs had changed: With two elementary-school aged kids remote learning at home, she requested a more flexible schedule that would allow her to trade off on childcare with her husband but her employers wouldn’t budge. “I think they wanted to hear that I cared about my job more than my kids,” she said. “My work, being out in the field and visiting clients, was not conducive to the fact that I now had children to watch at home because daycare and school were closed.”
Smith was first introduced to mindfulness meditation the practice of watching your thoughts, feelings, and sensations without judgment in the second grade. “I wasn’t necessarily a troubled kid, but sometimes I had a lot of anger,” Smith recalls. “I remember being a little confused about it, like,
Why we gotta sit and be quiet? But with more consistency, I started to be able to observe myself and became more aware of what I was actually feeling, like,
You’re not angry you’re actually sad.”
In the fall of 2012, when Smith left her home in the south suburbs of Chicago for Indiana University in Bloomington, she suddenly found herself “running around every waking hour” as a science major, president of her university’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and an employee at the financial aid office.
Reality Steve Revealed the First Potential Bachelorette Contestants for [SPOILER]’s Season
They! Have! ARRIVED! Mar 15, 2021
Warning: This article contains spoilers for the upcoming season of The Bachelorette. Turn back now if that’s not your thing!
The potential cast of ABC’s upcoming season of
Bachelorette (starring Katie Thurston!) has already been selected and Reality Steve just dropped a first look at some of the contestants who are currently in New Mexico quarantining.
“Katie’s season begins filming next wknd,” Steve tweeted. “Which means the
Bachelorette Facebook page should be releasing the guys that are possibilities to be on her season around mid week.”