COVID19

There is so much uncertainty right now that it is not surprising that many of us are suffering from COVID-19 anxiety and stress.

Below is a roundup of 30 free self-care resources donated by kind individuals and organizations that may be of help to you in managing COVID-19 anxiety and stress. These include various meditations, apps, coloring pages, ebooks, videos, support groups, toolkits to manage anxiety, and online yoga and exercise classes.

30 Free Self Care Resources

• Belleruth Naparstek, LISW who has created guided imagery that’s used in hospitals across the country is releasing different free guided imagery for both adults and children every day ‪at noon to support people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Curious Tribesis facilitating free virtual mental health support groups.
• Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. is offering the Basics of Mindfulness Meditation: A 28 Day Program.
• The Garrison Institute will be providing an array of tools to help build resilience from guided meditations to written reflection pieces.
• The Greater Good Magazine suggests Six Daily Questions to Ask Yourself in Quarantine, and has created a Guide to Well-Being During Coronavirus.
• Headspace is offering free meditations.
• Insight Timer meditation app – 40,000 free guided meditations.
• Joan Borysenko, PhD, a Harvard-trained cell biologist and a psychologist is sharing 3 techniques for calming downduring a stressful time.
• Jud Brewer, MD, PhD has created a video with three tips for falling asleep(his third tip is especially helpful for when you wake up in the night and can’t get back to sleep).
• Mindful Org has Free Mindfulness Resources to Find Calm and Nourish Resilience During the COVID Outbreak
• The National Women’s Law Center created feminist coloring pages! to help provide a sense of calm, relaxation, and feminist joy in this tough moment. To share your beautiful art with them, post it on social with the hashtag #ColoringForHer!
• The New York Times is offering the Calm Place.
• Shambhala Publications is offering free ebooks, an online course, at home yoga retreat and many free videos.
• Shine has created a free toolkit to manage coronavirus anxiety.
• Six Seconds has created 14 EQ [Emotional Intelligence] Resources for Emotional Healthduring Coronavirus Times to ensure we’re each responding intentionally rather than reacting unconsciously.
• Sounds True has created a digital care packageto help you increase your resilience during challenging times including daily video sessions sharing insights from their recent online summits, opportunities for community connection, and webinars.
• Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield / Sounds True are providing a Free Half-Day At-Home Mindfulness Retreat. Completing this retreat including the scheduled breaks and walking meditation sessions requires about three hours.
• Tara Brach, PhD, has made a “Guided Meditation for Times of Pandemic: Calling on Your Awakened Heart.”
• Ten percent happier is providing free meditations and other resources to help providers and their clients manage their feelings of anxiety.
• The Tapping Solution have an app with tapping meditations for COVID-19 anxiety, including “Feeling Safe and Secure” and “From Fear to Worry to Peace.”
• Tricycle is offering live online practice sessionswith teachers Jack Kornfield, Pema Chödrön, Sharon Salzberg, and others to help ease anxiety amid our social-distancing efforts.
• Yale‘s happiness course (the Science of Wellbeing) is available for free online through Coursera.
• 92nd Street Y’s Tools and Techniques for Helping Children and Parents Cope with Anxiety

Workouts

1. Corepower Yoga– It is also offering free online guided meditations.
2. Fitbod Bodyweight Workouts
3. Fitness Blender
4. Mount Sinai Calm: Virtual Classes including yoga, music therapy and art activities.
5. PopSugar Fitness
6. Workout to Go handout– includes 13 exercises that are easy-to-follow strength, balance, and flexibility exercises to do anytime, anywhere.
7. Yoga with Adriene
8. The YMCA is offering many free online exercise classes.

Do you need some one-on-one assistance to help you cope with these difficult times?

Please feel free to schedule an appointment to see me virtually.