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In this episode, the cohosts answer your questions about pandemic trauma, including:
How do you deal with the trauma of losing people you love to Covid and still supporting and helping your students/clients/patients and trying to remain open to them when they are actively NOT taking precautions to protect themselves and others?
How do we live and deal with pandemic trauma when the pandemic has no end in sight?
What can we practically do to heal from the ongoing pandemic trauma? What can you do about it?
Sarah also shares a six-step process for dealing with strong emotions which includes:
One- Identify the feeling
Two - Accept the feeling and connect with common humanity (the fact that you aren’t the only one feeling these feelings due to these experiences)
Three - Don’t compare your feelings to anyone elses - your feelings are valid (even if they aren’t “as bad” as someone else's)
Four - Sit by your own side, even when the feelings are hard
Five - take a break, reach out to social support or a primary care provider if you need more support
Six - Be kind to yourself. This feels hard because it is hard, and consider saying a kind word to yourself or as Kristin Neff says - put your hand to your heart and say “I can be kind to myself through this.”
