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Emotional and Mental Wellbeing
Brain Breaks
How to Take Care of Yourself
4 Strategies for Coping with Pandemic Stress from the NIH Medline Plus Magazine
Sleep and Health
Are your kids getting enough sleep?
How about you? Getting enough Sleep?
Take a Nap: Tips for First Responders • Tips for the Rest of Us
Meditation Five Days a Week
Monday: Live Mindfulness Meditation 4:15-5:00pm
Tuesday: Meditation Anytime
Wednesday: Live Kindness Meditation 12:30-12:55pm
Thursday: Live Mindful Pause 12:40-12:55pm
Friday: Breathing Meditation (5 minutes) Anytime
Monthly Meditation with Brenda Gustin. Register here
Music for Calming and Coping
The Struggle is Real
The Behavioral Health Struggle is Real! Read more about resources
Coping and Self-care
Not Quite Thriving: maybe you are LANGUISHING
There's a Name for the Blah You're Feeling. Read the article
Languishing but Not Giving Up.
30 Seconds of CALM from UC ANR:
Coping with Stress in English and Spanish
Managing work with responsibilities of home and family
Webinar: Navigating Parenting, Home Schooling/Academic Support, Working and All the Rest of It
View the video recorded from Facebook Live
Using three of our parenting tools (priming, praise and presence) we'll discuss how to teach children to wait, how to set up schedules and routines so that kids feel safe and can cooperate, and how to find calm and peace for your children, yourself, and your home.
Drs. Chelsey & Robin Hauge are a double-Ph.D. mother-daughter parenting team! Together, they run Positive Parenthood, which offers relationship based support through courses, coaching, and community. Join them for the next two Tuesdays for a two-part series on parenting through COVID-19 and shelter in place.
ASAP Tips for COPING
Set aside a dedicated place for working
Be kind to yourself and take care of yourself. It will help you take care of others.
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How to Reduce the Stress of Homeschooling on Everyone With nationwide school closures in effect, many parents are now monitoring homeschooling while at the same time trying to make a living in the midst of a terrible economic crisis. In this environment of broken routine and uncertainty, chances are your child is showing big feelings and challenging behaviors.
Resiliency
RESILIENCE re•sil•ience \ ri-’zil-yen(t)
1: the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially compressive stress.
2: an ability to recover form or adjust easily to misfortune or change.
Turning Lemons into Lemonade: Hardiness Helps People Turn Stressful Circumstances into Opportunities
Breathing and Meditation
Mindful Self-Compassion Meditation Every FRIDAY with Maureen Craig 12:10-12:50 p.m
Laughter Yoga Every MONDAY 12:10-12:50 p.m.
Box Breathing: close eyes, breathe in for four seconds, hold four seconds and exhale four seconds, REPEAT at least three times.
Take the "Perfect Breath." Read how.
Try some "old school," 4-7-8 Breathing.
The Center or Mindfulness: Empathy and Compassion series
SPANISH MEDITATION (English too) from UCLA. 3 to 19 minute sessions
