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Healing with Our Children in the Pandemic and Beyond
While the world turned upside down during COVID-19, parents, teachers, therapists, social workers, families, and community leaders have had the added responsibility of keeping children physically and mentally safe, educated through virtual learning, occupied with restrictions and cancellations, and also healthy and happy amidst overall uncertainty.If you are reading this article, please pause for a moment and take a deep...
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The Immeasurable Value of Meditation for Coping During the COVID-19 Crisis
The past few weeks have seen an unprecedented increase in mental tension, anxiety, and fear spanning the globe. With the COVID-19 virus reaching pandemic proportions and new cases being reported each day, this is a crisis unlike anything most people have experienced in their lifetime. While government and local agencies are working tirelessly to contain the outbreak, you might find...
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How to Create a Splendid Staycation During a Pandemic
A staycation might not sound so enticing during the time of a pandemic. Staying at home certainly means something much different than it did just six months ago. Where you previously may have craved some downtime to relax on the couch for a long weekend, now, depending on your unique circumstances, that may feel like just another day. Or perhaps...
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Existence and the Virus: A Healing Solution
Originally published by SF Gate.The COVID crisis is being fought on two fronts, medical and economic, but most people are suffering psychologically. The word “existential” rarely comes up in normal everyday life, but the crisis has created all the symptoms of existential dread: a sense of futility, anxiety about the human condition, and a deep fear of death. This comes...
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At-Home Wellness Guide to Staying Healthy During COVID-19
All these global changes due to the coronavirus can be overwhelming, but here are five simple steps you can take to keep yourself mentally and physically healthy during this time.The coronavirus (COVID-19) is sparking anxiety across the globe. The virus has everyone making changes to their daily routines, washing their hands more often, practicing social distancing, and even quarantining themselves...
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COVID-19 and a New Way to Be Happy
Originally published by SF Gate.Diseases point the way to the future if we pay attention. This holds especially true of the global outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19. It is clear that some important lessons have emerged already. Some of these are obvious because they are so visible: Uncertainty is a major cause of panic. No one could miss that lesson. Economies...
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Anxious About the Coronavirus? Here Are Eight Practical Tips on How to Stay Calm and Support Your...
You’re likely seeing and hearing a lot about the novel coronavirus and the associated respiratory disease that it causes, COVID-19. Much of the news focuses on useful preventative measures that include washing your hands, using sanitizers and avoiding close contact with those that are sick, but it often ignores another important part to staying healthy — boosting your own immune...
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10 Foods That Help Boost Your Immunity to Fight COVID-19
Here is a list of 10 immune-boosting foods with antiviral properties helping the immune system’s ability to destroy pathogens In combination with good hygiene.
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The New American Dream? It’s Already Here
Originally Published by SF GateIn this country, you’d have to be willfully ignorant to not know about racism, police brutality, income inequality, global warming, the staggering cost of medical care, and the rapacious activity of huge international corporations.A secondary benefit of a massive crisis is that change can occur. People have waked up enough to protest racism and police brutality....
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6 Tips to Stay Productive While Working from Home
In response to the novel coronavirus crisis, a majority of the country has been asked to work from home—many for the first time and an extended time. You might have thought working from home would be ideal, but it has its challenges, especially when it comes to focusing and productivity. There is always something to distract you—that pile of laundry...
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The Power of Purpose in a Time of Struggle
This article is dedicated to the healthcare workers, and others, who sacrifice daily in service to others.The current COVID-19 climate has given the world an opportunity to reflect, and I am no exception. As a child, I remember witnessing the suffering of sick people I saw on TV. I felt a stirring inside that I couldn’t explain, but I knew...
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Balancing Your Dosha During COVID-19
You’ve probably noticed that during the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, people have been responding differently to their abrupt life changes. Since we all are very unique in our mind-body types, we will absolutely have varying responses to what is happening around us, and may need to focus on different practices to stay healthy—in addition to the typical preventive practices that...

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