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Short talks on meaning, mental health, and what it actually takes to live a more examined life. Listen below or via: iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, & YouTube.
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135: Why We Won't Come Out Of This The Same
We are a product of our environment. Our values, beliefs and societal norms are just a construct of the time and place we are born.
Historical events cause societal shifts. War, revolution, natural disasters and disease change the people experiencing them. When those people reintegrate with society, the entire society is transformed.
We are in the middle of an unprecedented global event. In this episode of The Reality Check Podcast, I discuss how our shared experience may transform the foundations of global society.
132: Reframing The Coronavirus As Collective Trauma
Looking at Coronavirus through the lens of collective trauma will help us to manage the crisis - both internally and communally.
We are all going through something new, unique and scary. We don’t have complete information, and we are seeing people lose their freedoms, livelihoods and lives.
This is traumatic, and is causing us to act and respond in a compromised way.
In this episode I discuss the importance of mentally re-framing as a way to maintain our mental states and relationships.
130: Deconstructing The Corona Conspiracy & Draconian Governmental Expansion
People will profit from Covid-19. They will use this situation to their advantage. This is what people have always done.
It doesn’t mean they created the virus, and it doesn’t mean there is a conspiracy. All it means is that people are opportunistic.
Governments included. We will see an expansion of powers, and thus a contraction of freedoms.
In this episode I deconstruct the conspiracy theories and discuss the personal impact of our governments response to the crisis.
127: Adapting To New Realities: Social Distancing, Financial Strain & Mental Health
State wide lock-downs are in place, effectively shutting down normal life as we know it. This presents obvious challenges, both financial, social and mental.
Adapting to these changes will take time, but it is possible.
In this episode I discuss my reaction to the Corona-virus situation, the need for continuing self care, as well as the potential state of the world moving forward.
126: Maintaining Mental Health During The Coronavirus
The Coronavirus is causing a disruption to normal life.
For me this has meant stopping social gatherings, reducing my training, delaying profession development, and most significantly, the postponement of my therapy sessions.
Maintaining mental health is vital at all times, but particularly now.
In this episode, I discuss the impact of the Coronvirus, and what I am doing about it.
125: Meditation For Managing Fear, Panic & Pandemic
Worried about the Coronavirus? Meditation will help.
Unchecked fear can make us irrational, take away our functionality and impair our judgement. This impact is compounded when those around us are just as afraid as we are.
Fear has a way of spreading.
The panic buying of toilet paper, preserved goods and medications, as well as the absolute desolation of global share markets in response to the Coronavirus is telling.
We are afraid, and rightly so. But do we need to be this afraid to remain safe? I doubt it.
In this course you will learn five different meditations that will help you to reduce the severity and duration of intrusive thoughts. You will learn how to manage the (natural) fear that arises, as well as learn to put the information about the pandemic into an appropriate context for your life.
These skills will help you to maintain a sense of normality in a world that feels increasingly confusing and scary.