The Coronavirus, Racism and More

When the Coronavirus crisis first appeared, Dr. Jackalyn Rainosek started offering articles and videos to help everyone deal with the stress and discomfort. Later in the year, the focus turned to the persistent problem of racism and white supremacy in America. Those articles and videos are featured below.

#1 How to process your feelings about the coronavirus crisis

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Identifying your feelings during this crisis.


#2 How to process through feelings

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How to process through feelings

#3 Talking talking talking, failed to have listened–Four listening skills

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Four listening skills that will help during this crisis

#4 Misconceptions Which Lead to Conflict

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Misconceptions that lead to conflict

#5 When I mess up communication, there is a way to change the interaction

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How to apologize effectively

#6 Grief, loss and ways to move through the grief

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The five stages of moving through grief

#7 Process feelings using the 5 stages of grief

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Using the five stages to process loss

#8 What are the losses and things that I miss?

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What are my losses and what do I miss

#9 Worry is a drain. Learn to stop worry.

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Worry less by living in the present moment

#10 Worry can be stopped.

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Focus on what you can do today

#11 Emotions and Feelings have purpose–they are important to us

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Emotions and feelings have a purpose

#12 How do we learn about our emotions?

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The pandemic puts us all in a vulnerable place

#13 Lack of emotional connection and of expressing feelings

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How to feel after years of not feeling

#14 Disconnecting in relationship and emotionally

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Disconnecting emotionally

#15 Cost of impatience-benefit of changing

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Growing through impatience

#16 Patience, Growth, Respect

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Developing more patience and respect for others

#17 Being able to talk or be silent with people who have a serious illness

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What do I say or not say during this crisis?

#18 How can we be empathic and sympathetic and not feel pity for someone

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Empathy and sympathy are about respect. Pity isn’t.

#19 Pity becomes a game

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Pity becomes a game

#20 Cost of coaching when resistant or willing to change

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Coaching requires wilingness to invest in change

#21 Humility and Honesty-drivers for growth

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Humility and Honesty-drivers for growth

#22 Obsession Roulette-Investment in Being Right

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Investment in being right

#23 Giving up needing to be right

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Giving up need to be right

#24 Getting out of negativity

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#25 Moving from negativity to resolution

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From negativity to resolution

#26 Impact of feeling vibrant

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Impact of feeling vibrant

#27 Changes can ignite my life

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Changes can ignite my life

#28 Gratitude, Love and Happiness

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Forging relationships with gratitude, love and happiness

#29 Loving our furry friends

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Loving our furry friends

#30 Transitions can be the best of times

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Transitions can be the best of times

#31 Ambiguity: The culprit that makes transitions hard

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Ambiguity makes transitions hard