What happens when someone tells you, "Don't think about that!" "That" being your current big problem or concern. It's like saying...

Here is the list of all the tools in all the toolkits so far. Or consider it an atlas of maps. Take what you like and leave the rest!

This toolkit is about slowing down...being kind to ourselves..relaxing... even having a little fun.

The most effective tools--all can either be done while doing something else or only take a few seconds.

I'm going to start with a confession this time. A couple of mornings ago...

Here are a few more ways to dislodge that anxiety, melt it, shake it loose, or at least mute it down a little.

"It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there." William Carlos Williams

A new edition of the Anti-covidanxiety toolkit including your contributions, complete with cartoons.

Here's the toolkit I am using to stay sane, to move through and beyond what I am calling covidanxiety. You could call them seeds of sanity.

The word "with" was important to her precisely because she had a hard time feeling it. It was a reminder, a lodestar, a refuge.

You are not alone. You are amazing and wonderful, able to do so many remarkable things. You have handled awareness...

Not rushing to immediately fill the void with words...waiting before replying...taking a deep breath....the first cousin to silence is...