Ultimate Resources to Survive COVID19 Quarantine
Social Distance Survival #Quarantinelife — Creative Solutions for a Whole New Normal
Mental Health, Money, Keeping Kids busy, Relationships, Beauty & more
We are just over 2 weeks into required Social Distance due to the coronavirus, and it feels like our worlds have been turned upside down. At first the projection of shutting things down while disruptive didn’t seem too bad. It interrupted some St. Patty Day celebrations, caused some cancellations of big events, but now… We’re basically in an indefinite holding pattern and adjusting to a whole new normal.
Our new world — Covid-19: Businesses closed, kids at home all day, restaurants with limited service, financial stress, some of us lost our jobs, and are waiting to see if / when we get unemployment. The state unemployment offices are not staffed and there is limited phone support for the largest surge of claims in recent history.
What do you do when you need a creative, innovative answer to problems you didn’t expect to have just a few weeks ago?
After an adjustment period, I felt inspired to ‘pivot’ my own perspective, to research and come up with resources, and solutions that we can access or create to get through this time.
This is the starting of a series of articles outlining solutions to questions:
· How about when you cannot find any cleaning solutions no matter how many stores you’ve been to in the past few weeks? As we know it’s critical to clean like we never have before. — Here are 3 Easy DIY Cleaning Solutions using CDC Guidelines
Financial Hardship — This one hits almost all of us… what are things you can do NOW to ease the impact of the coronavirus on our wallet? Here are Immediate solutions for You.
· What do you do if you know of someone who passes away from the coronavirus but you cannot be there for them? Check out 5 Ways to Grieve in Quarantine
· How do you maintain a relationship, survive and even thrive when you’re constantly around each other all the time now? Your Relationship Answers are Here
· How do you kids entertained once you’ve exhausted all your ideas and you realize you’re guaranteed at least another month with the kiddos? Parenting and Social Distance #QuartineLife Resources — Still be their hero
Mental Health, one of the secrets to surviving and even thriving is our mental health. How do you survive with all of the Stress in this Pandemic? 25 Proven Professional Quarantine Tips — plus advice from Brene Brown, Tony Robbins, and Oprah Winfrey
· How we look and feel has a great deal to do with how we are able to maintain during this quarantine. 7 Tips for Cutting your hair at home without regrets PLUS how to dye your hair at home with tips from the pros including how to fix hair color
· Will your favorite restaurant even be around after all of this? (We have some fun ideas to share and help them connect)
· What about entertainment, sports, movies what options are there besides binge-watching shows or rerun movies, games or concerts on cable?
· Not everything is bad, what if there is a need to celebrate someone or something, how do you make this happen? (birthdays, anniversaries, promotions for outstanding performance in an essential industry)
· If you’ve been laid off as I have will your job be there after all of this? If not what can you do now?
· If you have a business what can you do to stay afloat, or dare I say come out ahead after the coronavirus?
· How can you stay healthy and exercise when your gym’s closed and you were in a particular type of class?
All of us need each other right now to make it through this Covid-19 quarantine. This series is here to provide support, connection encouragement, and creative solutions to new problems. I have some great ideas for some creative solutions, but I want to hear from you what your ideas are, share great solutions you’ve had or heard from others.
As Humans, we are creative and resilient, better together. Some communities are really pulling together, we’re better together. If you’re in one like that excellent!! We’re better together, sometimes we need inspirational ideas to help us be innovative and resilient especially now.
A little about me, I’ve been a nanny for a number of years, worked in staffing, digital marketing, have been married for 14 years (met a great man after a few bad boyfriends) and have worked in leadership and management for over 10 years.
This article series will be continued with lots of tips, support to get you through this new normal, join me we’ll get through this.
