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Pandemic or Not, We Will Mentally Survive. Here’s Why.
It has less power over you than you think.
If the pandemic had happened 10 years ago, I would have been an emotional and mental mess. As someone who was anxious and fearful about the world, my younger self would have found a worldwide pandemic difficult to deal with. I would have been terrified of catching the virus and of what the future would hold. I would have felt down about the state of the economy and been anxious about the separation from loved ones.
Thanks to a lot of grueling inner work and healing, I am at a very different place in 2021. But saying that, I know what it is like to be completely consumed by thoughts and emotions. Most of all, I know what it is like to be deeply afraid of the outside world.
Over the years, I’ve realized that no matter how bad things get, you always get through it. Events which seem catastrophic at the time become a passing storm that breaks through on the other side. I’ve learned that we are always stronger than we think and that we can handle more than we realize.
Pandemic or not, you will mentally survive. Why? Because the situation has less power over you than you think. But there are a few techniques you can apply to make this journey easier.
