Emotional Support Resources for You & Your Loved Ones
Team YogaNurse® offers this with love today. Providing you a variety of healing modalities and therapies to help you to transform any stressful angst during this pandemic, into an experience of peace, faith, hope and trust.
Not every section below will apply to your situation. That’s 100% okay. Take what works for you and leave the rest.
With gratitude to two of my mentors in the entrepreneur world, Marie Forleo and Danielle Laporte, for their contributions.
Be sure to check out an upcoming Retreat, from Lisbeth Overton RN, a VIP Founder member of our YogaNurse Yoga Teacher Training, and a great nurse entrepreneur in her own right.
Resources for emotional support for you and your loved ones:
Stay connected with neighbors while social distancing & ease loneliness:
NextDoor is a terrific way to connect with your neighbors while hunkering down inside. You can connect with others, check in on the vulnerable around you, and if you have a surplus of essentials someone else needs, you can drop them at your neighbor’s door.
Resources for the kids:
If your kids are asking you questions about the coronavirus, you’ll love this comic and podcast that NPR just released for kids to learn and enjoy.
PBS Kids Videos are offering on-demand educational videos and a livestream of the PBS Kids 24/7 channel free with no subscription. Take a look at this education game app
Feel good instagram accounts to follow:
Good News Movement – journalist-run page for GOOD NEWS ONLY. Zero politics.
Good Good Good – They help you feel more hopeful & do more good.
Virtual therapy counselling:
How to manage coronavirus-related stress, fear & anxiety:
When things feel out of control, the best place to start is YOU. We know that stress lowers our immune response, which is the exact opposite of what we need right now.
Here are some MarieTV episodes on fear, stress, and anxiety that will help you cultivate a calmer, stronger, healthier mental state.
If you’re struggling with the negativity around you, watch:
How to Turn Negative Vibes Into Positive Fuel
4 Simple Questions That Will Reverse Any Negative Thought w/ Byron Katie
How To Move Ahead When Everything Sucks
Community services for desperation & despair:
Crisis Text Line is a non-profit that provides free crisis intervention via SMS message, available 24 hours a day, in the US, UK, and Canada.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline — Call if you are in need of free crisis resources for you or a loved one.
National Domestic Violence Hotline — If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, you can talk confidentially so a trained expert advocate over text or on the phone, 24/7.
The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline is available 24/7 for folks living in the U.S. and Canada and has interpreters in over 170 languages. The hotline offers confidential crisis intervention, information, and referrals to thousands of emergency, social service, and support resources.
National Support Groups and Websites a list of support groups.
The Center for Complicated Grief The Center for Complicated Grief is dedicated to improving the lives of people suffering from complicated grief by helping clinicians and the general public learn how to recognize complicated grief. The Center was established in 2013 to disseminate information about a short-term efficacious treatment for this condition.
Meditation:
My current favorite meditation by Eckhart Tolle:
Mantras:
Gayatri Mantra, from Deva Premal — for calming the mind and boosting immunity. This is one of my all time favorite mantras. Give it a listen.
AND NOW INTRODUCING:
The Spiritually Wealthy Woman Retreat with Lisbeth Overton, Registered Nurse, Oracle Deck Creator, and Host of The Spiritually Savvy Nurse Podcast:
When: August 1st, 2020 (10am-3pm) on Zoom.
Lisbeth will teach you tangible tools she uses to connect with her higher self in a way that is fun and creative!
Commune with other spiritually curious women and TRANSCEND your upper limits through a connection with your higher self. Access and reflect on your own beliefs around money & spirituality, specifically the ones that don’t serve you.
Loved ones, may you choose many or a few resources included here to support you and your loved ones. I truly hope it gives your soul solace.
Peace, love and prayers,
Annette and Team YogaNurse®
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