CARING FOR YOUR SELF
Some resources
Taking care of your self and your family during the pandemic is really important. We are adding to these resources all the time. Please send your links to @ThomsonPat and @anujacabraal.
RESOURCES AND STRATEGIES
Calming yourself resources from Dr Petra Boynton on No star to guide me https://nostartoguideme.com/quick-calming-techniques/
Mental Health posters from Dr Zoe Ayres
Everyday self care strategies from Dr Narelle Lemon
Free wellbeing resources for counsellors from AdamsPsychology Services
Seven tips to get your sleep cycle back on track. Lesley Ingram-Sills
Five strategies for well being on Youtube
Dr Aisha Ahmad twitter thread on coping in disasters
Twitter accounts for mental health/self-care:
@rellypops
@mindfuleveryday
@mindfulacademix
@thinkwellhugh
@DrPetra
@artswellbeing
MENTAL HEALTH
Blog posts and papers, even a video or two, designed to soothe, stimulate, distract. (most recent additions at the top)
The good citizen in lockdown. Michaela Benson
28 days later. Matthew D'Ancona
Productivity during quarantine. Constance OGrady.
Working at a grocery store during Covid 19. K B Carle
Margaret Atwood's lockdown diary The Guardian
Shifting strategies Hook and Eye
Metaphors for lockdown. Brigitte Nerlich
The Fag poets. Utopian drivel
The pandemic is a portal. Arundhati Roy
How we read in a pandemic Siri Hustvedt
How deep are our reserves of patience Róisín Ingle.
Your pets are ready for you to leave the house. Slate
Well being is social not individual Guardian
Three equations for a happy life even during a pandemic, Arthur Brook
Juggling identities during the pandemic by Bali Maha.
Developing a new ethic of care
Why we might disagree about Covid 19 from Ruth Dixon and Christopher Hood
The psychology of isolation
The first thing I'll do when this ends Jenna Price
Tiny letters from three young people on Close
How we use our bodies to navigate the pandemic NYT
Feeling in and out of time from The disorder of things - also see their other posts on coronavirus
What writers are doing at home TLS
This is not a rehearsal. Emergence
Tara Brabazon vlog on solitude and connectivity
Thinking about the future - Educated Optimism
Pandemic Files The Yale Review fiction/nonfiction collection
The losers conspiracy. Paul Preciado inArt forum
Routines that keep us sane The Atlantic
Deciding whether to do academic writing or not Alexis Shotwell
Gradually then suddenly caring from Frances Bell
Books about caring from a distance from Edge Effects
Silence, songs and solace from Brigitte Nerlich and colleagues
On confinement from The Book of Life, School of Life
Is anyone else barely coping from Self.
Surviving stress in the time of self-isolation U of G PGR blog post
Improve your overall well-being during physical distancing Forbes
What you're feeling is grief, Harvard Ed Review
One last trip to the bookstore Slate
Living with uncertainty The Conversation
Sustaining your psyche by Dangerous Meredith
Coping with pandemic paralysis by The HappyPhD
Care in uncertain times syllabus from Duke University Press (open access readings)
Joan Tronto on the political ethic of care on youtube