See if you can guess what movie I’m referring to…Bill Murray is asleep in bed, covers pulled up to his chin and then the camera pans to the alarm clock. The clock’s number flips from 5:59 to 6:00 AM. And then the radio starts to play.

“So put your little hand in mine, there ain’t no hill or mountain we can’t climb…Babe…I got you Babe…I got you Babe…."

This scene plays out again and again and again throughout the entire movie. Because, it’s Groundhog Day. And, unfortunately, for Bill Murray, the day repeats itself over and over and over again. There’s no changing it. There’s no response he can make that will move him forward in time. He’s. Just. Stuck.

This is the movie that Courtney Bilton so very much relates to…She’s a mom of 2 young children, who last year around this time was preparing to return from her second year-long maternity leave. And, as you know, this was the same time last year when the pandemic hit causing everything in her life and everything in YOURS to pause.

This repeating of the same exact day as described in this movie, there is basically no better way for this movie to have come to life…to have oddly become true in a way.

Perhaps you are a parent and can relate to this sense of monotony, of repeating the same day or the same scenarios over and over again—regardless of a pandemic and quantarine. But regardless of your personal situation I ask you: in this continual sameness, where do you find value? How do you make meaning of it all?

That’s what we’ll explore today. As parents or as people stuck in quarantine or as a person stuck in a rut that feels like Groundhog Day…I’m sure there is some part of this that you can relate to you. Hopefully it will spark a new response to it all, causing you to stop and take stock of your values.

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At the beginning of this episode I talk about an upcoming webinar called "Values-Driven Self-Care." In this webinar Jessica Zielske, another behavior analyst, and I talk to you about stress, the role it plays in our lives, and how we can reframe stress so that self-care is more than a reaction...it's an intentional way to live our values.

Join us on Monday, March 22nd at 4PM ET, or 7PM PT.

My guest, Courtney Bilton, is a board certified behavior analyst from Ontario Canada. Follow her on:

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