CANCELLED EVENT: Walking Clinic
March 28th Walking Clinic Cancelled and Walking Club on Hold
Eaton Rapids Walking Clinic and Club Updates
In solidarity with state, national, and global efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus, we are cancelling the previously scheduled Good Form Walking Clinic set for Saturday, March 28th and all subsequent meetings of the walking club at the school until after we re-assess the situation when school reopens at the beginning of April.
In the meantime, please find some private space outside if you can and take a walk to let off some stress and feel the solid ground under your feet.
How to Handle Fear and Uncertainty by Deborah Gilboa, MD
Here's a great article by one of our trusted allies Dr. G on how to handle Fear and Uncertainty.
Copyright © 2020 Deborah Gilboa, MD, All rights reserved.
Denial and ignoring doesn't work. Anger or freezing up from ovewhelm are understandable but not useful. Instead, try these strategies (for yourself, your teams, and with kids):
- What do you already (think you) know about this? Now fact check it. Feelings and other peoples' fears are not facts.
- What do you need to know to protect yourself? Now go learn accurate, up to date info from a trustworthy source. For Coronavirus, I recommend the CDC Situation Summary
because it's updated regularly and fact-based. - What can you control? In any scary situation there are actions and behaviors you can DO and that helps kids and adults stop ignoring the danger and focus on what is possible.
- How can you handle your fear? The most important practice of all - what are your coping mechanisms when you're scared? Who can you connect with, what activities or distractions give the worry part of your brain a break?
All of this practice will serve you well in the next weeks as this gets worse. And all of it will strengthen you and the people around you every time something frightening and out of your control comes into your awareness.
Look at coronavirus head-on, don't be afraid to address it. That will keep you safer AND make you stronger.
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