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How To Protect Your Mental Health Boundaries In The Pandemic

Exhausted? Yup. We’re all feeling the emotional weight of uncertainty

Kerry Needs
8 min readOct 9, 2020

Feeling apathetic and unmotivated? You’re not alone.

This year has left us all a bit dazed and confused. We were going about our lives on one path, and then the world plunged into chaos, taking things in a brand new direction.

2020 could have forced you to rethink many things — your work life, your home life, your relationships, your health. When shit hits the fan in our daily life, it can shake up our routines and habits massively.

So with the landscape ever evolving on a daily basis, how do we hold onto good mental health, and emotional wellbeing?

Things can feel wildly out of control right now, and COVID-19 fatigue is a real issue, so the only thing we can do in chaotic times is turn our attention towards taking more care of ourselves.

What are you letting in?

This week, we sympathised with a despondent Joe Wicks, as he discussed how, six months on from the start of the pandemic, the media and government handling of the situation is taking a toll on his mental health, making him feel ‘powerless.’

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Kerry Needs
Kerry Needs

Written by Kerry Needs

Freelance Copywriter | Experiments in #lifestyledesign, #productivity and #flow. Occasional #poet. Get in touch: www.kerryneeds.com

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