{"id":1769,"date":"2022-01-11T11:58:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T11:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahonywoodpsychotherapies.co.uk\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2022-01-11T12:10:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T12:10:34","slug":"week-1-tips-for-coping-with-isolation-and-working-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahonywoodpsychotherapies.co.uk\/week-1-tips-for-coping-with-isolation-and-working-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1: Tips for Coping with isolation and working from home."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Hello fellow colleagues, co-workers and friends these are certainly difficult and anxious times, and I would like to welcome you to the first of a series of short weekly well-being guides designed to help support you (and offer some tips) as we all begin to navigate the shockwaves of the Covid-19 virus together. I will be keeping each guide brief as I believe there is a lot for us to take in and make sense of right now, and I don\u2019t wish to overwhelm you further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During these unprecedented times we are all having to make huge changes to our everyday lives. Re-adjusting has meant the initial shock of physical separation and working remotely from home, and perhaps now as the dust settles we are beginning to battle a creeping sense of awareness of the fear of isolation and disconnection. I for one, am beginning to feel a bit like a ship without an anchor trying to sail towards an invisible shoreline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At this point, as I am imagining, the initial excitement of working from home is beginning to wear off, the perceived benefits of a prolonged holiday break, thoughts of no-longer having to get up and travel to work, staying in your PJ\u2019s all day, catching up on all those little things you have been putting off, is maybe starting to feel a little more tentative and fragile. That initial euphoria now being rumbled by other oscillating feelings. Things can soon melt away when faced with an uncertain world, a lack of social connection and such an overwhelming change to all aspects of our lives. Each one of these anxieties, and many others that we will face during this difficult time, have been well researched and not surprisingly have been found to have a detrimental effect on well-being and mental health. Let\u2019s face it there is a reason why social isolation in the form of prison has been used as a punishment for hundreds of years, as human being we are hard-wired to seek out and develop social connection and interaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n