Coping with Difficult Emotions During Quarantine

COVID-19 can bring about some overwhelming feelings. Below you'll find a few coping techniques that you can use when difficult emotions hit.

  • Be present with the difficult feelings
  • Focus on the sensations in your body
  • Allow the difficult feeling to exist without trying to push it away

Try:

  • Taking deep breaths
  • Exercising
  • Stretching
  • Going for a walk
  • Examine your feelings with kindness
  • Lean away from excessive self-critique or shame and into accountability
  • Remember that failures and mistakes are a part of the human experience

Try:

  • Imagining someone you love in your current situation and think about how you would talk to them; treat yourself with the same fairness and empathy
  • Bring your attention to the things in your life that bring you joy
  • Make note of 3 things that you’re grateful for each day
  • Think about connections or people that have nourished you

Try:

  • Thinking of things that you are grateful for the next time you’re stuck in an overwhelming feeling