7 Essential Self-Care Habits to Follow During Covid (Especially If You Have a History of Trauma)
We’re supposed to wash our hands, maintain social distance and wear a mask whenever distancing isn’t possible. Simple enough right?
But what about our mental health? What can we do to safeguard our sanity when everything we’ve ever known has been flipped on its head?
This is no longer about “getting through” a couple of months of disruption to our lives and routines. Back in March, that survival approach seemed reasonable enough.
“Just hang in there and do whatever you can to get by…”
But as time passes, it becomes increasingly apparent that Covid isn’t going away anytime soon.
For those of us with a history of physical, emotional or sexual trauma, the inescapability and pervasive nature of this virus feels unsettlingly familiar and reminds us of what we lived through and felt back then.
Just like the traumatic events we experienced, it can feel like we cannot escape this virus because there is no safe place to go; we do not know if or when we might catch it or how our body may respond – and we do not know if or when all this might end.
This uncertainty stirs and re-awakens all of our old coping mechanisms. Consequently, all the things we did back then to survive, we now see echoed in how we’re coping today.
Letting things get really messy, cleaning compulsively, consuming copious amounts of food, binging on Netflix, drinking too much, using drugs, shopping online, I’ve heard it all from clients over the past few months…
If you’ve done any of these things, you probably know by now that it’s not an effective solution that’s going to benefit your life in the long term.
So, in an effort to support your mental health as you navigate these challenging times, I’ve put together a list of 7 Self-Care Habits that you can try out today.
SELF-CARE HABIT #1
Use EFT Tapping to process and release emotions and fears
You knew this would be #1 right? lol 
