This list of online wellbeing resources for VMBS faculty and staff will be updated monthly during the COVID-19 pandemic (Dr. Nance T. Algert, Dr. Carla Liau-Hing Yep, & Kendra Fletcher).
Some of our veterinary colleagues from around the world have shared personal and professional “Tips” that they have found useful during this time of COVID-19. We share some of these practices below and we ask that you then share practices that you have been using to support yourself, your friends and family, colleagues, and your work environment. Take what is useful for you and your circumstances.
Please send your practices to Dr. Nance Algert at n.algert@tamu.edu and we will keep adding to the list during the monthly wellbeing updates.
June 7, 2020: Useful Practices for Home, Work, or Both:
- Start a conversation by asking everyone in your group/family to list one word to describe what is going through their mind and how they are feeling.
- Let others be in “their space”; do not preach or prescribe “correct coping behavior”.
- Let your person (e.g. grandparent, friend, colleague) read bedtime stories to your child.
- Drop off no contact baked goods to people that you want to know you are thinking about them
and/or you appreciate them. - Reach out to people as they cross your mind; this can be via text, email, letter, phone call, etc.
- Engage in social awareness with our online/virtual environment.
- Engage in civil behavior with our online/virtual environment.
- Assess, reassess, and check-in with yourself.
- Engage in learning from others, understanding that what is a best practice for you may not be possible or best or another.
- Share your burdens – this helps us to not burnout or function as a martyr and helps u stay off Karpman’s Drama Triangle.
- Be intentional about checking in with your team on a regular basis.
- Engage with friends, family, or team in something safe, fun, and accessible like on-line games (bingo, trivia, etc.).
- Create a mental first-aid kit:
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- Shifts us from feelings of pessimism, rejection, frustration
- Physical or digital photos, music, mementos, cards, letters, etc.
- Enlist a partner to remind you of the kit
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- David Kessler and Brené on Grief and Finding Meaning. (Podcast). March 31, 2020.
- Emotional Inflammation: A Condition Of Our Time. (Podcast). Dr. Lise Van Susteren. April 21, 2020. A "pre-traumatic stress"—a stress response that sensitive people can have in advance of the actual occurrence of traumatic events- is discussed.
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- Diversity and Inclusion on Air: Queer POC in Veterinary Medicine. (YouTube video) Jun 17, 2019. Layna Tarpalechee (Oklahoma State University) and “Juancho” Orjuela (University of Guelph) talk about their experiences as double minorities at their institutions, how they’ve kept a positive outlook and made personal commitments to “be visible, be out, and be loud.”
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- Diversity & Inclusion on Air: The Health & Wellbeing Effects of Discrimination. (YouTube video) Jul 15, 2019. Dr. Chiarina Owens of the Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine stops by to discuss the impacts of discrimination on the health and well-being of marginalized populations.
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- Celebrate the Sun. Story Time Kit. Five heartwarming activities from author Sarah Jane Hinder that complement Hello, Sun! A Yoga Sun Salutation to Start Your Day—including sunshine stones, a journal, and coloring pages.
- Get to Know Your Breath. Author Instructional Video. When you’re mad or worried or can’t wake up in the morning, what can you do? Author Mariam Gates leads kids through six exercises from Breathe with Me: Using Breath to Feel Strong, Calm, and Happy.
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- Inspire Connection. Creative Craft Activity. Join the paper doll movement from Emily’s Idea by Christine Evans to spread a message of love, connection, and acceptance. Includes a template to make your own paper doll chain.
- Let Go of “If Only”. Book Reading Video. Eight-year-old Alyssa reads Julie Berry’s Happy Right Now to teach us that the best way to be happy is to embrace the circumstances we find ourselves in every day.
- Mindful Parent, Resilient Child. Live Video Call with Dr. Christopher Willard registration.
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- TedEd. “Brings lessons to life for student through animation”.
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- Working and Learning from Home During the COVID-19 Outbreak. Corinn Cross, MD, FAAP. May 7, 2020. American Academy of Pediatrics.
- 12 Science-Backed Ways to Feel Better Every Day. Sara Reistad-Long and Maggie Seaver, March 09, 2020. Real Simple.
- Breathing Exercises ~Coherence Clock~ Coherent Breathing (YouTube video). Nov 18, 2019.
- Building your resilience. “Roadmap for adapting to life-changing situations, and emerging even stronger than before”. 2012.
- Clinical Resources to Help You Stay Healthy During the COVID-19 Outbreak. Cleveland Clinic – BRAVO. We recognize the range of emotions and challenges this pandemic brings, and we are here to help by offering free self-help content and access to Cleveland Clinic health coaches.
- Coherent Breathing. (YouTube video). February 23, 2020. In this extended interview in my series with experts in the science of breathwork, Drs Patricia Gerbarg & Richard Brown discuss the benefits of breathing techniques on the body and mind… in particular their specialty area – “coherent breathing”, sometimes called “resonant breathing”.
- Coherent Breathing’s Iconic 2 Bells Now With Sinusoidal Pacing. Breathing Exercises, Breathwork.
(YouTube video). Nov 15, 2019. - COVID Coach Created for everyone, including veterans and service members, to support self-care and overall mental health during the coronavirus pandemic. Features: Education about coping during the pandemic, Tools for self-care and to improve emotional well-being. Trackers to check your mood and measure your growth toward personal goals, Graphs to visualize progress over time.
- Free Mindfulness Apps Worthy of Your Attention Kira M. Newman. (2019). Mindful
- Greater Good Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. Elise Proulx, March 31, 2020. Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley.
- How to be your best self in times of crisis. (TED Connects video). Susan David.
- How to Build Daily and Weekly Routines as Shelter-in-Place Drags On. Brian Krans. April 12, 2020. Healthline.com
- Mindfulness: How It Can Help Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic. May 19, 2020. Kathy Katella.
- Not a Crafter? Here’s Why You Should Consider Becoming One During the Pandemic. Charu Suri. May 2020. The Washington Post
- Online Virtual Craft Classes for both kids and adults
- The Healing Power of the Breath. (YouTube video) Dr Pat L. Gerbarg. Apr 2, 2020
- The View from Another Window. Melissa Kirsch (Nov. 4, 2020). The New York Times.
- Your Greater Good Calendar for May 2020. This month, we offer you tips and tools to build optimism. Elise Proulx. May 1, 2020. Our monthly Greater Good Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being, Science Center at UC Berkeley.
- A brief history of melancholy – Courtney Stephens.
TEDEd video. If you are a living, breathing human being, chances are you have felt sad at least a few times in your life. But what exactly is melancholy, and what (if anything) should we do about it? Stephens details our still-evolving understanding of sadness — and even makes a case for its usefulness. - Assess your wellbeing. Professional Quality of Life assessment. AVMA.
- Burnout Self-Test. Mind Tools.
- Highly Sensitive Test
- Implicit Association Tests. Project Implicit is a non-profit organization and international collaboration between researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition – thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. Harvard.edu
- Kognito At-Risk Program. Kognito is a 45- minute, online, interactive intervention-training program that teaches you how to identify individuals exhibiting signs of psychological distress or depression; how to approach individuals to discuss their concerns; and how to make referrals to the appropriate local and national resources. Recommended by TAMU Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) Department, Division of Student Affairs.
- Mental Health Checklist: How am I Doing Amidst COVID-19? Jessica Hoblenz. PsychCentral.
- PERMA (Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment) Profiler. Bulter & Kern. 2015. A validated survey that measures five pillars of wellbeing: Positive emotion, engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment.
- Personal Well-Being assessment. HeartMath Institute.
- Physicians aren’t ‘burning out.’ They’re suffering from moral injury. Simon G. Talbot and Wendy Dean. July 26, 2018. STAT, produced by Boston Globe Media.
- Take a mental health test. Depression, Anxiety, Psychosis, Bipolar, Eating Disorder, PSTD, Parent, Youth, Addiction, Work Health, Caregiver, Better care for adults, Spanish: Depression, Ansiedad. Mental Health America.
- The Highly Sensitive Person. 1996. Elaine N. Aron. Self-assessments to find out if you are a highly sensitive person
- Wellbeing Assessment. University of Minnesota. Helps measure where you are at on your wellbeing journey, and suggestions to improve your own wellbeing.
- What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness. TEDxBeaconStreet, Nov. 2015. Robert Waldinger.
- Coping with Grief and Loss – Mourning the Changes since COVID-19. Jonathan Ishoy. Purdue University.
- Coronavirus grief: Coping with the loss of routine during the pandemic. June 2020. Mayo Clinic.
- Don’t Grieve Along. Reach Out. Nicole Chung. Oct. 14, 2020. “Finding emotional support during a crisis often means turning to long-established networks already built for distance”.
- Grief and COVID-19: Mourning our bygone lives. Kirsten Weir. American Psychological Association.
- Grief And Mourning During A Pandemic. Mary Leigh Meyer, Texas A&M University College of Medicine. May 20, 2020.
- Missing Life Before COVID-19? You’re Not Alone. Veronika Tait. Psychology Today.
- That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief. Scott Berinato. March 23, 2020. Harvard Business Review.
- Understanding Grief in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Kendra Cherry. April 09, 2020. Verywellmind.com
The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Disaster Distress Helpline, 1-800-985-5990, provides 24/7, 365-day-a-year crisis counseling and support to people experiencing emotional distress related to natural or human-caused disasters.
This toll-free, multilingual, and confidential national crisis support service is available to all residents in the United States and its territories. Stress, anxiety, and other depression-like symptoms are common reactions after a disaster.
Call 1-800-985-5990 or text “TalkWithUs” to 66746 to connect with a trained crisis counselor.