Health

Pandemic anxiety: understanding and managing anxiety during COVID-19

Sarah Wilson’s First, We Make the Beast Beautiful is a book dedicated to opening a more compassionate, comprehensive discussion about anxiety. In it, Wilson employs various metaphors to describe the experience of “the beast.” Anxiety is compared to having computer…

The Beauty of Emotional Band-Aids

We all have emotional Band-Aids, inbuilt psychological defence mechanisms that help us cope with the range of life’s hardships, from debilitating traumas to the difficult emotions that may surface as part of a normal day. In the same way our…