Mental Health and Wellbeing During COVID Handouts
These handouts accompany the CLE entitled, “Mental Health and Wellbeing During COVID – Resilience Skills for Use in Good Times & Bad.” Think of them like you would a pocket knife. There are specific tools for specific scenarios. For example, if you do not have any problems with sleep you will find little use for the handout entitled, “Sweet Dreams.” Use those that resonate for you. Take what you like and leave the rest.
Making Sense of Mindfulness and 5-4-3-2-1
Sweet Dreams (suggestions for help falling asleep and staying asleep)
Weather Patterns (discussing meditation as a tool for less stress and emotional reactivity)
Coping with Uncertainty (excellent discussion of problem solving approaches vs emotion based approaches using cancer remission literature as an example of coping with long-term uncertainty)
Validation (discussing fight or flight response and prolonged stress disorder’s impact on mental health)
Your Surge Capacity Is Depleted and It’s Why You Feel Awful
Mental Health and Wellbeing Toolkit
Supplemental Videos
Laughter is Good for the Soul (a quick 2-minute video to help you laugh)
Stress: Portrait of a Killer (55 minutes; opening scene does a great job of explaining the stress response)
A New Way to Look at Stress from a Resilience Lens (a 15 minute Ted Talk that is worth watching for ways to think about stress response to build resilience)