Step one:
Completely Obsess Over the Crisis.
Let’s face it. It's pretty much all around you, everywhere you look you see the words pandemic, you feel the fear that mob mentality incites. People are buying supplies in your local stores in a panicked state. The news outlets are delivering scarier and scarier news by the hour. You try to avoid it for as long as you can but finally you succumb. You pick up your phone or remote and it begins, the flood of information. Go ahead and binge, on all the things you think you’d want to avoid. Throw yourself in head first. Get as deep in conspiracy and controversy as you can. The scariest thing in life is fear of the unknown. Allow yourself to absorb the information, but take it as it is, just information. Trust me, once you get to that lowest point of fear in your mind, there is nowhere to go but up!
Step two:
Giving Into the Feels
Lie in despair (be it literally or figuratively) if that’s what you want. Listen to yourself, what your subconscious is telling you. How are you going to express the emotions you feel? Find a healthy way to let it out. Throw on some songs you like and sing your soul out. There is nothing wrong with feeling all of your feelings. No one likes to feel sad but it's a part of life. Everything vibrates. If you go up chances are you will have a down period. The trick is to find a balance. There is always beauty in life, even when it’s the hardest to find. I challenge you to find something beautiful in your day. So feel your feels but know once you are at your lowest, there is nowhere to go but up.
Step three:
Finding a Support System
Human beings by nature are social; we need to feel connected to others. This experience as a whole is unnatural. Having to be separated from our loved ones for the greater good, it’s heartbreaking and as a result we are suffering in more ways than just physically. Be strong! This too shall pass! It’s important you find someone or something that brings you joy during this time. It's 2020 and we have many forms for connecting and communicating. I know people who have daily/weekly video calls with friends/family as a method for raising their spirits. Reach out to someone you haven’t spoken to in a while, reconnect. As a people we’re forced to slow down, forced to reflect on the activities or people we may have taken for granted. It's not too late. Be kind to one another, we are all in this together and know in your heart that there is nowhere to go but up!