We could all use the gift of good mental health this holiday season.
This year has been uncommonly rough, tossing us from massive wildfires to a deadly pandemic to police brutality to an extremely high stakes presidential election. It’s the runaway freight train of disaster that just won’t stop, providing little respite from the chest-crushing anxiety that now permeates our every waking moment.
Unfortunately we can’t buy our friends and family completely new, pre-2020 brains for the holidays. However, we can try to relax their current ones. “In 2020 in particular, it can be really helpful to engage in soothing rituals and activities at home,” Dr. Megan Spokas, associate professor of psychology at La Salle University, told us via email. Read more…
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