Over the past six months we’ve all faced new challenges as a result of lockdown, including:
Thinking about the challenges you’ve faced, or are continuing to face, and writing them down is a great way to logically look at your situation and address what is worrying you. What can you do, practically, to overcome, or reduce, these challenges? In next week's blog we will look at helpful routines you can put in place to combat challenges, concerns and worries. FD Consultant’s team of accredited specialists will offer ongoing support to help manage stress, prevent burnout and provide specialist trauma care where required, enabling your staff with the tools to cope, and recover more quickly. If you want to find out more request one of FD Consultants webinars to support your staff by emailing us at [email protected] Date: Oct 2020 Author: Maddie Nixon (Associate for FD Consultants)
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Throughout October FD Consultants will be looking at the impact COVID-19 has had on all of us in one way or another. We’ll be focussing on our new webinar service entitled “Living in uncertain times”, sharing tips on how we can all look after ourselves, exploring the positives of living with Coronavirus, and the impact it may have on our future. Coronavirus continues to spread across the world, with 31,664,104 confirmed cases worldwide and 972,221reported deaths (WHO, 24/09/2020), and in many countries the cases continue to surge, while others who believed they had the infections under control are now seeing another rise in cases. This is a learning experience for us all, but no one, including world leaders, have ever experienced anything on this scale for over 100 years, since the 1918 flu pandemic known as ‘Spanish flu’, and so we are living in unchartered territory. Scientists, drug makers and governments around the world are moving with unprecedented haste to develop a vaccine. The aim is to develop one by the end of the year, or early next year, which if successful would be a scientific feat as no vaccine has ever been developed so quickly (which goes to show what can be achieved when we work together). The collaborative working on these vaccines may hopefully mean that we will have more vaccines emerging that can deal with different aspects of the disease. While we wait for the vaccines we have to take individual responsibility for ourselves and to protect each other, such as hand washing, wearing masks and social distancing. Governments across the world have been forced to limit public movement and close businesses and venues in a bid to slow the spread of the virus. This has had a devastating impact on the global economy. Reviewing how COVID-19 has impacted the world it is understandable that it has been difficult for all of us living in these uncertain times to adapt quickly to the challenges we are facing. As human beings we do not cope well with uncertainty, it leaves us feeling as though we have no control over our lives, which means we may feel more stressed, anxious, depressed and powerless. Our minds start to search for answers playing out the ‘what-if’ scenarios, worrying about what might happen, trying to think through every possibility, and desperately trying to find solutions to take back control. However, this doesn’t work, we are not able to predict the future and so uncertainty is inevitable. What happens instead is that we end up feeling overwhelmed, anxious and exhausted. If you recognise these feelings, it is important to remember you are not alone, many of us have experienced these feelings at some point during this time and there are steps we can take to learn to cope with the uncertainty. FLARE is a useful model to refer to when living in uncertain times. FLARE is an acronym that offers a step-by-step approach to managing uncertainty (DR Inna Khazan).
Offer kindness and compassion to yourself and others in these difficult times. Uncertainty is difficult for all human beings. There is nothing you can do to eliminate the uncertainty. Offering yourself and others kindness and compassion will help ease the discomfort of uncertainty. FD Consultant’s team of accredited specialists will offer ongoing support to help manage stress, prevent burnout and provide specialist trauma care where required, enabling your staff with the tools to cope, and recover more quickly. If you want to find out more request one of FD Consultants webinars to support your staff by emailing us at [email protected] Date: Oct 2020 Author: Maddie Nixon (Associate for FD Consultants) |
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