Coping During the Pandemic (COVID-19) or a Community Crisis

This is the first step to your journey on conquering the pandemic, or any other crises you might be experiencing in your life.

The Cognitive Triangle is a cycle between our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Learn how we may be experiencing this interconnection in response to the pandemic.

Watch this video for more information on the Cognitive Triangle.

Discover the importance of the interconnection of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Common misperceptions or thought processes that lead to negative outcomes in our cognitive triangle.

Learn how to manage and respond to thought distortions.

Self-Help Worksheets for Thought Distortions

What does anxiety entail and what are the components to anxiety?

What strategies we can implement to attack behaviors to manage anxiety

How to manage anxiety through behavior when you experience avoidance

Learn about how to create smart goals to carry out activities when feeling anxious

Discover more about SMART goals in a video format

To wrap up, take a look at a SMART Goal graphic, and a website that allows you to review SMART goals and use worksheets to help you plan

Learn about the cognitive aspect of anxiety

Take a look at these worksheets to work through your thoughts

Identify some physiological reactions to anxiety and see how we can manage them

How breathing can help us to calm our physiological reactions to anxiety

Video on breathing techniques to use for anxiety

How to use Grounding to help our bodies calm down.

Watch this video to better understand grounding.

Discover some strategies to work through emotions during anxious moments.

How to use strategies to move toward emotional regulation

Videos based on strategies we can use to manage panic and anxiety

How to manage worrying by problem solving

How to manage worry that is out of our control

A re-cap and overview of the strategies on worry.

Some worry worksheets

What strategies are there when we feel overwhelmed due to the pandemic?

Helpful video on what to do when feeling overwhelmed

What to do when stretched too thin

Strategies to use for stress

Video on Stress

Some worksheets and resources for when we are stressed

Strategies to use when we are experiencing boredom

How we can curb boredom in a video.

What to do when we are lonely during a crisis or the pandemic

Strategies and Suggestions on social networking when lonely

Watch this video for more tips on how to curb loneliness.

Explore trauma and grief during the pandemic.

What we can do in response to trauma and grief.

Take a look at infographics with more suggestions on how to cope with trauma and grief.

Watch this video on how to cope with trauma and grief during the pandemic:

Take a look here for outside resources that might be helpful if you are experiencing trauma or grief from the pandemic.

How to cope with missing positive events or activities due to an unexpected event, such as the pandemic.

Worksheets to help us navigate missed positive activities during the face of an unpredictable event, like the pandemic.

Discover how to return to your social environment after being secluded from social distancing and quarantine for so long.

Explore how social anxiety can be connected to post-pandemic

Video on re-entering society following the pandemic

Learn what we can keep in mind when returning to somewhere we might be unsafe from COVID during the pandemic.

Watch this video about returning to work and what strategies we can use to cope.

How to manage your eating and drinking habits during the pandemic.

Explore the ways to manage your eating and drinking during the pandemic through a video.

How to manage and limit news intake during a crisis like the pandemic.

Video on tips to create a healthy news diet during the pandemic.

Learn what social stigma and how it presents itself during this COVID-19 pandemic.

Learn about the effects of social stigma during the pandemic.

Learn what steps we can take toward preventing and stopping social stigma.

Watch these videos and see this infographic to learn more about social stigma.

Learn about self-help websites to help you with your mental health during the pandemic.

Look at these infographics from CDC as review sheets.

Goodbye until next time!