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Wellbeing during COVID-19

17 August 2020Aquinas SchoolCommunity
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Wellbeing suggestions relating to COVID 19 Community Transmission.

The following suggestions are modified ideas shared with Aquinas College staff to assist in their wellbeing during the rapidly changing scenario of community transmission of COVID 19. Some of them may be useful for your family too.

Some suggestions to assist your personal wellbeing as we move in these interesting times:

  1. Acknowledge that it is stress-inducing time currently and those feelings of uncertainly, worry, and anxiety as examples are understandable and normal in this situation.
  2. We also need to be sensitive and aware that many are facing severe financial challenges and difficulties, with redundancies, reduced employment hours or opportunities, job losses, and businesses under severe pressure. Our own personal situation may be quite different from others.
  3. We are all in this together and will work together to get through it. You are not alone.
  4. This is a dynamic situation that will continue to change.  If we can adopt a flexible and agile mindset, it will assist us as we “roll with the punches” so to speak.
  5.  We have limited energy, let’s put it into things that can help us. We can’t control what happens at the border, or in Auckland, but we can control our areas of influence such as washing hands, following guidelines and taking care of ourselves.
  6. We have no choice over how this plays out over the future, we do have a choice of how we choose to think, act, talk and respond to the situation.
  7. Connect with others, colleagues, family friends, take the opportunity to catch up with uplifting people over a chat, coffee or activity. How are they going?
  8. What is an opportunity that may arise from this for you? Are there chances to grow, learn something new, take up new challenges?
  9. We have been here before and we did well then, collectively as a country, as staff, and as individuals. We have gained some valuable insights, lessons and learnings from the lockdown in March that we can draw upon currently.
  10. Look after your wairua, connect with your faith and beliefs and draw strength from them.
  11. Exercise, make time to do some physical activity of your choice, move the mood!
  12. Limit and be selective of media influence that you take in, ask yourself the question “Is this helping my frame of mind?”
  13. For further support, there is a wide range of providers. Specific ones include EAP services https://www.eapservices.co.nz/ for professional counselling or text 1737 to speak to a trained counsellor.

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