An Illustrated Resource on How to Build Relationships in a Pandemic
Can we take a moment to collectively acknowledge how hard this is right now? With everything going on, we need people more than …
Pandemic Mental Health
Covid-19 has presented challenges to individual and community mental health that, previously, few of us could imagine. Since the start of the pandemic, I have been following research on the psychological impacts of quarantine and isolation and creatively integrating this data with what we already know about resiliency, trauma, and the power of relationships.
Below, you’ll find some of the resources that I have created to help individuals and families cope with the unique psychological challenges of our current time.
Phases of Disaster & Collective Trauma: Mental Health & Recovery
None of us really know what it looks like to survive and thrive beyond a global pandemic. Thankfully, past government funding for research about disaster …
COVID Kid’s Activity Book | A Workbook to Help Families Cope
Most of us are more than a little concerned about the mental health of the kiddos that we care about during this pandemic. The natural …
Kids and COVID-19: Therapeutic Family Activities to Support Resilience
The first draft of this illustration was created as a professional resource, but as Social Distancing entered the global vocabulary and #quarantinewithkids started trending, I …
8 Ways to Boost Mood and Mental Health (Even in A Global Crisis)
This originally eight-part doodle on ways to manage mental-health highlights several research-backed adjunctive therapies for low mood and depressive symptoms. However, before I had the opportunity …
A Flowchart for Getting to Sleep – A Playful take on Sleep Hygiene
A flowchart for getting to sleep. We all know how elusive sleep can be, but quality sleep is essential for physical and mental health. When …
7 Positive Childhood Experiences (PCE’s) that Shape Adult Health and Resiliency – Illustrated
JUMP TO: VIEW THE ILLUSTRATIONS | DOWNLOAD THE PDF | TAKE THE QUIZ In 2019 researchers at Johns Hopkins University published results of the first …