Coping with Coronavirus

We have to socially distance right now, but let's not emotionally distance.

With my own county officially in a shelter-in-place order, schools closed until who knows when, kids at home, many non-essential businesses closed down, people working from home/remotely (I myself am now conducting all my sessions with clients via videoconferencing), concerns about our under-resourced health care system, and everyone having the same spoken and unspoken fears of economic instability and insecurity on the micro and macro levels, shit is hard right now.  Our collective future is unknown and uncertainty causes all kinds of anxiety and psychological disruption.  This virus is calling on all of us to cope in ways some have never coped before.  We are having to stretch hard and fast.  That is generally not easy to do.  How are you coping with it all?

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