Your Low-Stress Guide to Leveling-Up Your Bedtime Routine
Are You Burnt Out or Depressed?
So if youre feeling lingering or resurgent COVID-19 anxiety even though youre vaccinated, youre not alone.
That just feels nightmarish and is so much fodder for peoples anxiety.
To be clear, vaccines are working.
So if you have the vaccine, you are statistically extremely safe from the diseases worst outcomes.
Still, there are strategies you’re free to employ to ease your worried mind.
clinical psychologist, life fulfillment expert, and author ofDate Smart,Joy From Fear, andAging Joyfully
But, there are aspects of your life it’s possible for you to control.
While this strategy can be effective in diffusing anxiety, Watson admits its not always easy.
It feels really bad because were just dwelling and circling the drain of our anxious thoughts, says Watson.
And its not overflowing into all aspects of your life as much, allowing for a bit more peace.
Remember that uncertainty is difficult
Human beings do not like uncertainty, full-stop.
But Watson says it can be helpful toreconsider your relationship to the unpredictablein light of present circumstances.
In addition to anxiousness, you may also be feeling sadness, disappointment, or hopelessness.
Theres a sense ofintolerable grief, says Watson.
We have to allow ourselves the humanity of being alive right now, in 2021.
clinical psychologist, life fulfillment expert, and author ofDate Smart,Joy From Fear, andAging Joyfully
If you are struggling with this, its expected.
Watson encourages you to get comfortable with this uncomfortable reality.
But at the same time, it was a relief to have fewer commitments each week.
Advancing my career wasnt my top priority for the first time since I was 18 years old.
None of us are the same as we were before this, and thats not all bad.
And importantly, you survived.
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