'Framing the pandemic as a golden opportunity for self-improvement, assuming that people have ample time for learning handy new tricks, ignores how catastrophic the situation truly is for so many people'
or learn Spanish right now. You need to live, and do your best to help your community.”
Morgan says she’s flinched at platitudes likening the pandemic to a “gift”: “While I respect that some people need to put a positive spin on this in order to get through it, telling other people that a fatal global pandemic is ‘a gift’ seems tone-deaf to the fact that people are dying, people are losing their businesses, and people are abjectly terrified.”Many people aren’t focused on thriving, but merely surviving.
If there were ever a time to go easy on yourself and set modest goals, this is it, according Joy Harden Bradford, PhD, a licensed therapist and founder of. Instead of beating ourselves up and setting lofty goals of creating a masterpiece, “we really just need to work on being more kind and gracious with ourselves,” she said. “We are just all doing the best that we can to try to come out of this alive on the other end.
That same grace, Harden Bradford suggests, may also be extended to the self-isolation overachievers—those who are icing perfect lemon cakes on Instagram, getting the perfect Pilates body,becoming a semiprofessional flutist while in quarantine. “We all cope with anxiety differently,” she said. “For a lot of people, productivity is how they manage their anxiety.
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