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By: Dwight Bain, LMHC, NCC How 6 tiny accomplishments unlock psychological energy to get life going again   “Trapped in prison,” is how one person described COVID lock down for a month, and they were correct. If you mentally believe you are in jail during the shelter in place process of flattening the coronavirus curve your brain will respond in kind. If you feel trapped by the recommendations of the CDC to stay home, expect to feel isolation, anger, anxiety, panic, desperation, lethargy, apathy, or a total loss of motivation. Do you know what happens when you do the opposite?   When you look at shelter in place as a chance to ‘strengthen in place?’ The lessons may surprise you and the application may change you and your family for good after the lock down is lifted because there is a powerful shift that happens when you change your perspective.   Consider Nelson Mandela, who was the leader of ending apartheid in South African. He was locked up over his bel

By: Brian Murray LMHC, NCC We are born into an unpredictable and weird world. For centuries we have been building a pattern of how life should go, in order to create a sense of normalcy. We are born, go through school, perhaps college or join the military, get married, build a family and work on our career or craft. Occasionally events happen that disrupt this flow such as a recession or a virus pandemic. So, what does this have to do with running out of toilet paper? Actually there is a simple reason that involves a more complicated answer. The simple reason is fear. The complicated answer to why shelves were emptied of toilet paper during Covid-19 has more to do with our first 2 years of life than it does with Covid-19 itself.     When we are born, we are in a constant state of trying to figure out the world we live in. Basically, an infant is trying to figure out if their world is safe. This sense of safety is achieved when they cry, and someone comes to their aid. It could be