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Coping Strategies
Tired of managing a disaster?
After writing yesterday's blog about intensity and isolation, I needed a break. I was worn out from working this new way, fatigued by online meetings. While I don't advocate my choice as the best strategy for relieving fatigue, I did go home and I watched a movie on...
Intensity and Isolation
There is a strange new combination of pressures that come with this disaster of the COVID19 pandemic. Are you feeling the intensity of every decision? No wonder we are exhausted! Just thinking through the plan for the day, the many choices and options that may involve...
What’s next?
I've just spent the last hour on the CDC website for updates on the pandemic. As a mental health provider, I need to be tuned in to the trends that are happening in harder hit parts of the country as our Midwest section has had more time to prepare for the virus...
“Here Be Dragons”… Surviving in Uncharted Waters
In medieval times there was a practice to write the phrase "Here be Dragons" on the edge of a map. When cartographers were charting by star light in new waters, they didn't know what was "out there" so they would draw dragons and sea monsters onto the map. It would...
April Fools
I remember as a kid being as excited about April 1st as I was about Christmas or my birthday. Something interesting was going to happen, unique to this day. There was anticipation to see what pranks or tricks would pop up during the day. Would someone bring a frog on...
Coping Strategies
Tired of managing a disaster?
After writing yesterday's blog about intensity and isolation, I needed a break. I was worn out from working this new way, fatigued by online meetings. While I don't advocate my choice as the best strategy for relieving fatigue, I did go home and I watched a movie on...
Intensity and Isolation
There is a strange new combination of pressures that come with this disaster of the COVID19 pandemic. Are you feeling the intensity of every decision? No wonder we are exhausted! Just thinking through the plan for the day, the many choices and options that may involve...
What’s next?
I've just spent the last hour on the CDC website for updates on the pandemic. As a mental health provider, I need to be tuned in to the trends that are happening in harder hit parts of the country as our Midwest section has had more time to prepare for the virus...
“Here Be Dragons”… Surviving in Uncharted Waters
In medieval times there was a practice to write the phrase "Here be Dragons" on the edge of a map. When cartographers were charting by star light in new waters, they didn't know what was "out there" so they would draw dragons and sea monsters onto the map. It would...
April Fools
I remember as a kid being as excited about April 1st as I was about Christmas or my birthday. Something interesting was going to happen, unique to this day. There was anticipation to see what pranks or tricks would pop up during the day. Would someone bring a frog on...