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 By: Brian Murray, LMHC, NCC   Covid has created a psychological mind storm since breaking out nearly a year ago. Counseling for anxiety searches on Google tripled in just one-month last March and continues to dominate as one of the leading mental health searches. Anxiety is closely followed by depression as a mental health concern. It shows that after Covid arrived in the United States there was an upheaval in people trying to get a handle on anxiety. Anxiety is a natural response our mind produces that basically gives us two choices which is fight or flight. When we feel cornered and there is no escape, we tend to fight. If we have options to escape, we tend to flee. Panic which is also a form of anxiety is when we feel like we can do neither and feel trapped with no way out. Covid has certainly created all three of these types of anxiety scenarios. If we are to flee then we isolate and avoid others and try to shrink ourselves to the threat. To fight may mean we jo...

  By: Megan Brewer, LMHC As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, many anticipate a very different kind of holiday season this year. It has felt to me like we have all been on a progressive journey of discerning what the next season will be like, and, along the way, we have been adopting a new kind of acceptance in each season. This has been the journey of my family as we waited and reevaluated each month, trying to decide if it was safe to spend the holidays together. When we first started discussing the potential risks of traveling, it was difficult to arrive at a decision to not see each other as we had in years past. It took months of us talking it through and settling into the reality that the wisest decision for us was to forgo our usual holiday time together and stay home. The decision took time for me to accept, but once I did, it opened new opportunities to creatively celebrate in ways I had not previously thought about. Now, that doesn’t mean our family stopped longing ...