Your 2022 Self-Care Primer

by COVIDSupportVT | Jan 4, 2022

A Simple, Smart Guide to Coping with Covid Stress There’s a meme going around social media that captures how many of us may feel about facing another year with Covid. It’s an image of the Joker from Batman conversing animatedly with the creepy clown from the Stephen...

Your Covid Winter Holiday Survival Guide

by COVIDSupportVT | Dec 7, 2021

Use These Five Strategies to Build Resilience This Holiday Season Season of joy have you feeling down? You’re not alone. The holiday season can layer a lot of stress onto an already challenging pandemic environment.  There’s no magic bullet to getting through the...

How to Be Grateful — Now!

by COVIDSupportVT | Nov 30, 2021

Three Ways to Redirect the Mind to an Attitude of Gratitude Let’s face it, when you’re in the thick of a high-stress moment, you might not be thinking thankful thoughts. But what would happen if you could find something to be grateful for, even in that moment of...

Holiday Stress Have You Overwhelmed?

by COVIDSupportVT | Nov 23, 2021

Five Guidelines for Defusing Stress this Holiday Season Thanksgiving marks the unofficial beginning of the unofficial “holiday season.” The term means different things to different people, evoking different emotions for each of us. Joyful remembrance mixed with sorrow...

Pandemic Stress Puts Self-Care in Focus

by COVIDSupportVT | Nov 18, 2021

Howard Center Q&A Highlights Universality of ‘Compassion Fatigue’ Got stress? Stop whatever you’re doing for the next 10 seconds and do this: Sit still. Relax your eyes. Feel yourself in your seat. Notice your legs, your back. Notice your feet in your shoes (or...

Taking Back the SAD Season

by COVIDSupportVT | Nov 11, 2021

UVM Research on Seasonal Affective Disorder Aims to Change Your Mind About Winter If you could become a bear and hibernate until Spring, would you? Your answer might be a clue to a condition that’s remarkably common in Northern climes: seasonal affective disorder, or...