Episode 60 - Mental Health Check - In: Understanding the Pandemic and Our Mental Health Still Becoming with Monica DiCristina

Each month, Still Becoming brings you a Mental Health Check-In episode. These episodes are focused on mental health, emotional health, or personal growth, and involve a short teaching and a few take aways in around 15 to 20 minutes. The idea is to take a therapeutic topic or technique and expand it to help us in our everyday lives.⁣
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This week we are talking about how the pandemic could impact mental health. This episode is longer than usual because there was a lot of material to cover. This episode will define some terms, explain how this could be affecting all of us, a little bit of brain science, and finally some coping tools. It is a teaching episode that I hope will be validating and empowering.
Books referenced in episode, or ones that would relate to topics covered:
The Whole Brain Child, Dan Siegel
Mindsight, Dan Siegel
Try Softer, Aundi Kolber
Burnt Out, by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski

Articles referenced in episode, or that could be helpful:
"Your Surge Capacity is Depleted"
The Mental Health Impact of the Pandemic⁣
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