Covid-19 Mental Health Resources from Respark Support Group #2 | 4.7.20
Continuing our support group series, this week we met to discuss free resources and helpful exercises to help us cope with pandemic related stress and being cooped up inside due to our stay at home orders.
Helpful Exercise:
“Practice postponing your worry. Worry is insistent – it can make you feel as though you have to engage with it right now. But you can experiment with postponing hypothetical worry, and many people find that this allows them to have a different relationship with their worries.
In practice, this means deliberately setting aside time each day to let yourself worry (e.g. 30 minutes at the end of each day). It can feel like an odd thing to do at first! It also means that for the other 23.5 hours in the day you try to let go of the worry until you get to your ‘worry time’.”
Another tip:
Rely on reputable news sources. It is also helpful to be mindful of where you are obtaining news and information. Be careful to choose reputable, validated sources.
The World Health Organization provides excellent information here: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/ novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public
Free Resource:
https://www.psychologytools.com/articles/free-guide-to-living-with-worry-and-anxiety- amidst-global-uncertainty/
Free Resource:
Free 21 Day meditation – Oprah and Deepak Chopra
Talking/Discussion points:
🌟What am I doing to exercise my brain today?
🌟 Trying to Control Fear will make it worse
🌟 Managing fear looks different for each and every one of us
🌟The key is to be compassionate with ourselves and with others
🌟Who else is having crazy weird dreams right now?! According to Taylor’s instagram poll… 93% of us are!
🌟Its so important to talk about and identify the feelings of grief right now. We’re losing loved ones, and our normal everyday lives. 🌟If we haven’t lost anyone, we’re experiencing anticipated grief. This feeling is strong, its present, and its not going anywhere. Connect with one another over it. We are all in this together
🌟Stay tuned for our upcoming Respark Support Groups for Health Care Workers! Spread the word
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