What Helped Me When My Life Felt Uncertain and Unstable

“Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears.” ~Pema Chödrön Evicted. The word stared up at me from the letter in my hands. It was the summer of 2022, near the tail end of the Covid pandemic, when life was supposed to be settling back into normal—or so my husband and I had hoped. I read the letter again. My chest tightened. We’d always paid our rent on time. We’d never broken the terms of o