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...

PRN: A New Framework for Self-Care

by COVIDSupportVT | Dec 2, 2021

Trauma Recovery Specialist Wants You to Pause, Reset, and Nourish As the mental health impact of the coronavirus pandemic becomes clear, so too does the need for skills to help people recover psychologically and build resilience for the long term. In a recent workshop...

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...

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...

Helping Hands: Do Good to Feel Good

by COVIDSupportVT | Oct 26, 2021

The Case for Random Acts of Kindness Think about a time that someone did something to help you out. Maybe it was completely unexpected, or from a total stranger — a random act of kindness. How did it feel to be on the receiving end? Now consider a time when you...

Governor Marks Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

by COVIDSupportVT | Sep 23, 2021

Scott and State Health Officials Urge Self-Care, Check-Ins Vermont Governor Phil Scott joined top health officials in urging Vermonters to check in with one another and take care of their own mental health. The comments acknowledged Suicide Prevention Awareness Month...