The 7 stages of COVID-19 - a podcast by Dr. Niki Saxena and Dr. Eileen Chan
from 2020-03-16T13:00
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How to move past unproductive and stressful stages into acceptance and creative re-imagining?
- Go over 7 stages of grief
- Acknowledge fear and panic and grief
- This is an amazing opportunity to reconnect with the "real" world if you look at it that way
- Re-connect
- Re-define
- Re-imagine
- You can do that by
- Recognize
- Resourceful
- Reliance
- News blackout:
- Turn off TV/radio
- Sign up for alerts, set times to check information for critical updates
- Balance what you are watching
- See episode 1 notes for some trusted sources
- Harness compassion for other people rather than feeling sorry for yourself
- Be grateful
- Keep a journal [video, pictures, written]
- Offer to help someone that is less able/more vulnerable
- Needs a meal
- Needs meds or errands run that can't do that themselves
- Be grateful
- Social distancing doesn't mean social isolation
- Check in with friends
- Call
- Write letters
- Video chats
- Check in with friends
- This is an amazing opportunity to reconnect with the "real" world if you look at it that way
- Re-connect with what is important
- Re-define what "normal" looks like
- Re-imagine the possibilities
- You can do that by
- Recognize what is happening
- be Resourceful
- cultivate self-Reliance
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