When the World Is on Fire and You Still Have a Life to Build
Aug 08, 2025
When the bombs dropped that Saturday.
The news cycles are spinning.
And here you are, trying to figure out how to show up for your work, your family, your mission... when it feels like the world is unraveling.
I get it.
Part of you wants to shut everything down and doom-scroll. Part of you feels guilty for thinking about your business when people are suffering. Part of you is frozen between "I need to do something" and "I have no idea what to do."
Here's what I know about highly sensitive, conscious humans:
You feel everything. The collective grief, the fear, the anger, the helplessness. Your nervous system picks up on global frequencies like a tuning fork, and right now, those frequencies are chaotic.
But here's what else I know:
The world needs you stable, not scattered.
It needs you creating, not collapsing.
It needs you building bridges, not burning out.
So how do you process the weight of world events without losing your center? Without your business tanking, your relationships suffering, or your nervous system completely dysregulating?
First: Your Nervous System Comes Before Your Opinions
Before you absorb another news cycle, ask yourself: "Am I regulated enough to hold this information without it hijacking my entire day?"
If the answer is no, step back. Not because you don't care, but because an dysregulated nervous system can't create sustainable solutions. It can only react.
Your regulation isn't selfish. It's strategic.
Second: Your Work IS Your Activism
That business you're building? That healing you're offering? That art you're creating? That family you're raising?
That's not separate from world healing. That IS world healing.
Every time you operate from trust instead of survival, you're changing the collective frequency. Every time you create abundance from alignment instead of scarcity from fear, you're modeling a new way of being human.
The world doesn't need more people abandoning their gifts to worry full-time. It needs more people embodying the frequency of the world they want to see.
Third: Discernment Over Information Consumption
You don't need to know every detail of every tragedy to be a conscious human. You don't need to have an opinion on every development to care about humanity.
Sometimes the most revolutionary thing you can do is turn off the news and turn toward your purpose.
Information without the power to act on it is just anxiety fuel. Choose your inputs wisely.
Fourth: Create From Your Gifts, Not Your Guilt
Your money, your platform, your influence, your energy - these are tools for change. But only when they're generated from your authentic frequency, not from guilt or performance.
That project you're launching? That program you're creating? That boundary you're setting? That joy you're choosing?
None of that stops mattering because the world is in chaos. In fact, it matters more.
The Frequency of Solutions
I've been watching people I care about spiral into helplessness this weekend. Brilliant humans who could be creating solutions getting lost in consumption of problems.
Here's what I want you to remember:
Solutions come from elevated frequency, not from matching the chaos.
The part of you that can hold your center while the world shakes? That's the part that can actually help.
The part of you that can generate abundance while others operate from scarcity? That's the part that can actually contribute.
The part of you that can stay in your purpose while others get pulled into reactivity? That's the part that can actually lead.
So What Do You Do Right Now?
Regulate first. Before you consume any more information, get your nervous system online. Move your body. Breathe. Connect with something that brings you peace.
Choose your input diet. Decide how much information you actually need to be informed (hint: it's less than you think) and stick to that boundary.
Return to your purpose. What were you building before this happened? Keep building it. The world needs your gifts, not your anxiety.
Create from overflow, not emptiness. If you want to help, contribute, or take action - do it from your fullness, not from your fear.
Trust your impact. Every regulated nervous system helps regulate the collective. Every person living in alignment gives others permission to do the same.
You don't have to choose between caring about the world and caring about your life.
You can hold both. You can feel deeply AND create powerfully. You can be aware of suffering AND committed to solutions.
But you can't do any of it from a dysregulated nervous system.
The world needs you stable, not scattered.
Keep building. Keep creating. Keep showing up.
Your regulated nervous system and aligned action are acts of service to humanity.
Trust that.
🌟💜Abi
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