A little about my mother's biography

    My mother, Maria Luiza, was born in Camocim/CE on June 1, 1972. Soon after her birth, she started to live with her grandparents. She had a difficult childhood and started her studies at the age of 11. However, she did not conclude it because she needed to work to helps her family. 

    In her youth, 1990s, golden years of international music, she liked to go to clubs and dance, she also liked going to the beach with her friends. In 1994, she married and moved to another city, leaving her hometown to the city of Granja/CE. In September 1995 she had her first daughter but due to health problems 4 months later her baby died. In 1996, she had her second daughter. After three years, she gave birth to her third daughter, who is me. 

    Motivated by the desire to continue studying, she studied through supplementary education and completed her elementary school.  In 2007, she tried an open competitive exam and passed and she continues to work today as a municipal public servant.

This is my mother <3

To be happy in uncertain times

Today I watched the movie Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin and I learned important things.

In the movie, Christopher was trying to tell something important and bad to his friend, Winnie the Pooh, but Pooh paid no attention to all. What Christopher managed to say was that if he and Pooh ever broke up, there were three things he needed to remember:

"You are more courageous than you believe, stronger than it looks And smarter than you think".

Pooh fell asleep and forgot to remember those things.

Sometimes we also forget and act insecurely and we are afraid, we believe that we are not courageous, we are not strong and we do not know what to do in several situations, especially nowadays in times of pandemic.

Being well during these days is not easy at this point, but physical isolation should not be emotional isolation either.

We don't know how long this situation will last, but it is important to keep our mental health.

It is important to learn to be grateful!

You have a chance to protect yourself from the new coronavirus but many people need to work: doctors, nurses, police officers, firefighters, drivers, delivery men, postmen, bakery employees, bankers... And for that reason is important to be grateful.

There are two gratitude exercises tested by researchers in many studies.

• The first is about writing three things at the end of each day that you are grateful for. For example, a good conversation with a friend, something you read and liked, a positive message that someone sent to you ... 

• The other exercise is to send someone a message of gratitude, telling that person why you are grateful to them.

There are many other things you can do to be happier and stay healthy in times of uncertainty.

• Do things you like
• Watch movies that make you happy or make you laugh 
•  Take care of your food and exercise
•  Pay attention to the people who are at home with you, don't spend all your time on TV and social media
• Organize your day and plan your routine
•  keep bedtime

Finally, I see the pandemic as the movie The Wizard of Oz. We were in Kansas than a tornado came to put us in a new world. In the end we will return to kansas and discover that the story was not about the tornado the land of oz or pandemic, but about our transformation.

See you and thanks!