05: How To Improve Your Mental and Emotional Health During COVID-19 with Dr. Paul Anderson

Are You Satisfied

How emotionally fatigued are you?

Dr. Paul Anderson is here for a very special part two discussion to talk through the mental and emotional effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. While physical illness has impacted many people due to the pandemic, here is a place to learn about and heal from, the emotional and mental effects.

Emotional fatigue has set in and may be taking a toll on you. Part of this fatigue is due to a large amount of underlining uncertainty experienced daily. In this episode, Dr. Paul and Dr. Sarah discuss tools to feel more peace and calm despite the unknown.

Tune in to learn how to disengage when the external world feels intense and polarized, how to work through survivor guilt, and how to spread joy during a painful experience.

There ARE ways to remain satisfied in your life!

Topics and Tips:

The power of uncertainty’s impact on long-term mental and physical health.

How to view the pandemic from a different lens in order to reframe your mindset.

The impact of social media on your mental health, especially due to consuming mass opinions of others.

How polarization of beliefs has played a role on society’s mental health and daily life.

Your happiness is not tied up in other people’s beliefs and opinions.

Survivor guilt during the pandemic.

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Powerful Quotes:

“This process of living in a pandemic has more uncertainty than certainty. Most of human comfort and happiness comes from certainty.” (5:00, Dr. Paul Anderson)

“This fear that you're going to die and we have to acknowledge everyone's going to die and you might die of COVID but you also have. But you can't focus on this one thing all the time, or you have no joy in your life.” (10:20, Dr. Paul)

“It can be in a way, a blessing when a hardship comes like this and we're forced to sit at home and face things and we start questioning, am I happy in my life? Am I satisfied in my life? And start looking at things more deeply.” (11:33, Dr. Sarah)

“​​When we feel bad, we would love other people to feel bad too. Can I give you some of this? And that really long-term, that makes you stay in that negativity, which is not what you want.” (19:06, Dr. Paul)

“The lack of presence strips away a lot of happiness. Cou can be generally mentally not unhappy about things and that's one level, but if you're not present, it takes the joy out of.” (23:49, Dr. Paul)

“We all could not be here tomorrow, but I'm planning to be here for a while. That's how I'm looking at it.“ (32:38, Dr. Paul)

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