Winter is coming: how resilient are you?

Specifically, how resilient are you feeling this week?

The Prime Minister’s announcement of new restrictions, likely to last six months, has been a real blow.  As Janice Turner put it in her Times article on Lockdown II: it feels as if we have crawled up the ladder of COVID for five months—only to skid right back down the snake.

For city centres, it sucks 

For businesses that spent fortunes making themselves COVID safe, installing screens, rearranging meeting rooms, enticing people with free lunch and breakfasts, we are right back to March. Many are left wondering how long they can survive.

The upside is that schools are still open. But I’ve delivered four webinars this week, and on every single one, someone has told me their kids have already been sent home.  

This chart which is adapted from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has helped me share with others how far we still have to go.

ACTION. What can we do?

Which all made it a good week to talk to Rowan Gray, an expert on resilience. He explains how we can’t and shouldn’tavoid stress but must give ourselves time to recover. How getting the basics right matters even more during bad times.How we actually know what we need—we just have to give ourselves permission to do it. 

I hope it helps you get through to spring without the need to hibernate.

Next week, by popular request, we’ll be pulling back the curtain on how these vlogs get made and how you could do it if… you wanted to (you probably won’t after you see it!!). 

See you then. 

-Christine x 

Show notes: 

For more information on the Emotional Experience in Disasters graph see:

DeWolfe, D. J. (2000). Training Manual For Mental Health and Human Service Workers in Major Disasters