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Get Proactive: Building Your Mental Health First Aid Kit

As the strange days of COVID-19 led to a strange year and beyond — now, we transition to calling them strange times — it can feel hard to catch a breath. On the radio today I heard a songwriter discussing how hard it is to write an original song about an experience that is currently so universal. Agree — it’s strange also to ask clients about any “important context” that might impact the upcoming projects they have planned. It seems that everything is context. And yet, while the bizarre is now somehow becoming more mundane — yes, of course people wear masks all the time and stand far apart from each other or behind glass — I’m sometimes intensely struck by how challenging this all can be. It’s one thing to have a general sense of the broad dis-ease — health-related, political, or otherwise — but once in a while it really hits home. A example: To pick up library books today, I had to order them (online last week), call  from the parking lot, wait while a librarian found them, wait while another librarian brought them out to a cart, wait until she got back inside and no one else was around, then put on my mask and retreive the plastic bag with my name and due date in permanent marker, drive home, take the books out of the bag, and wash my hands thoroughly. I totally understand how lucky I am to (1) be healthy and (2) have a […]