Coronavirus, Racism and More

When the Coronavirus crisis first appeared, Dr. Jackalyn Rainosek started offering articles and related 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 privilege in America. Links to those articles, including links to the related videos, are featured below. To read the latest article, click here. To receive new articles and videos by email, please join our email list here.

Surviving Coronavirus

#1 How to process your feelings about the coronavirus crisis and related video

#2 How to process through feelings and related video

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

#4 Misconceptions Which Lead to Conflict and related video

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

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

#7 Process feelings using the 5 stages of grief and related video

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

#9 Worry is a drain. Learn to stop worry and related video

#10 Worry can be stopped and related video

Emotional Connection

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

#12 How do we learn about our emotions? and related video

#13 Lack of emotional connection and of expressing feelings and related video

#14 Disconnecting in relationship and emotionally and related video

#15 Cost of impatience-benefit of changing and related video

#16 Patience, Growth, Respect and related video

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

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

#19 Pity becomes a game and related video

#20 Cost of coaching when resistant or willing to change and related video

#21 Humility and Honesty-drivers for growth and related video

#22 Obsession Roulette-Investment in Being Right and related video

#23 Giving up needing to be right and related video

#24 Getting out of negativity and related video

#25 Moving from negativity to resolution and related video

#26 Impact of feeling vibrant and related video

#27 Changes can ignite my life and related video

#28 Gratitude, Love and Happiness and related video

#29 Loving our furry friends and related video

#30 Transitions can be the best of times and related video

#31 Ambiguity: The culprit that makes transitions hard and related video

#32 Mindfully moving into this new world and related video

#33 Acting differently through the transition and related video

#34 The Changes We Need to Make and related video

 

Racism, White Privilege and Social Justice

#35 Diversity is powerful and people’s lives matter and related video

#36 My journey to social justice and related video

#37 What does a white, female activist do next? and related video

#38 White Privilege feeds racism and related video

#39 White Entitlement-list of unearned social benefits and related video

#40 Experiencing White Entitlement and White Supremacy and related video

#41 Activists, Reformers or Allies – What action are you willing to take? and related video

#42 Racist, White Immunity contribute to change of racism in America and related video.

#43 Opening Up Conversations to Take Action Against Racism–letting out the secret and related video

#44 How Letting Go of the Lie Opens Up Conversations and related video

#45 Knowing, Seeing and Emotionally Connecting to and Understanding Racism and related video

#46 Racial arrogance and resolution to racial conflict and related video

#47 Developing the Self in Order to be an Active Participant in the Anti-Racism Movement and related video

#48 White Males Can Learn to Connect to Race and Gender Part 1 and related video

#49 White Males Can Learn to Connect to Race Part 2 and related video

#50 Building Relationships with Diverse Groups of People and related video

#51 How White Men, White Woman, Blacks and People of Color Can Interact and related video

#52 Learning to Work with Dimensions of Diversity and related video

#53 Having Agility in Diverse Group Discussion and related video

#54 Resolving Conflicts with Dimensions of Diversity and related video

#55 Leading Diverse Workforce: Individual Incidents to ISMs and related video

#56 Support for Diverse Discussions about Painful Events and related video

#57 Support Beneficial When Dealing with Race and Gender Issues and related video

#58 Caring and Thoughtful Discussions about Diversity and related video

#59 Managing and Living with Diversity and related video

#60 Affirmative Action is Only the First of Four Stages to a Socially Just Work Environment and related video

#61 Diversity Initiative – Clear Message About Valuing Difference and related video

#62 All Employees Are Leaders and Involved in Managing Diversity and related video

#63 Leaders Who Manage Diversity and related video

#64 Past Stages of a Diversity Initiative Create a Socially Just Work Environment and related video

#65 What a Socially Just Work Environment is Like and related video

#66 Building a Strategic and Diversity Initiative for a Socially Just Work Environment and related video

#67 When a Leader Speaks Out about Injustice and Deception and related video

#68 The Impact on the Process of Electing the US President and related video

#69 Appreciating the Right to Vote in America and related video

#70 Acts and Amendments that Supported Voting Rights of Americans and related video

#71 Voter Oppression is Occurring Again and related video

#72 Impact of Lies and Distortions on US History and related video

#73 The Manipulation of History–Impact of Lies and related video

#74 The Militia Groups–A Major Concern and related video