Our Lockdown Survival Guide
With our cities plunging into lockdown after lockdown, things can get draining, anxiety-inducing and isolating. You're not the only one who's feeling "over it". So how do we make it through?
How to deal with uncertainty (when you’re anxious and you know it)
The bad news is that there is no easy-hack to eliminate uncertainty from our lives. But the good news is that there are ways we can learn to live with and relate to it - even when it’s particularly challenging. Below are a few suggestions to help guide you through the rocky terrain of uncertainty. When practiced regularly, these tips will hopefully help you foster a relationship with uncertainty that isn’t one solely characterised by flat-out denial or abject terror.
Finding a fresh start out of iso (journalling activities to reflect on your time in lockdown)
With the help of Mary Hoang, Indigo’s founder, we’ve compiled some journalling activities below to help you reflect on your experience in isolation, and use those reflections to positively shape your life ahead. Our community has also shared some of their own experiences, which may also resonate with you in your personal reflection.
Am I Okay or Am I Not Okay? An Investigation
With the emergence and continuation of this strange, unfamiliar and disruptive way of life, there has been a great deal of talk of the idea of “coping”. Feelings of anxiety, grief, loss, confusion, restlessness, depression and fear have gripped many of us (for me, a few of them, a few times over). And often, I find myself asking the question, “So, am I okay?”
Quarantine Memes & Tweets
As a little relief from all the grimness permeating our social feeds & inboxes right now, we thought we'd lighten the mood with a compilation of our favourite quarantine-themed meme's and tweets.
7 Tips To Manage Anxiety
If you're struggling to manage your anxiety at this time - you are not alone. There are lots of resources and strategies out there at the moment, but here are a few we've compiled if you're keen for a few alternative approaches...
Sign our petition to allow rebates for all remote therapy
Therapy has just significantly increased in cost for all Australians who do not meet the strict COVID-19 criteria, but are unable to enter a practice in person - given the current trends in isolation, this will soon be a large majority.
Facing fear when shit gets real
It’s pretty tough to live in the now right now. When the future looms large with unpleasant possibilities and our present situation appears to continuously remind us of all that’s chaotic and uncertain. “Don’t be afraid”, “no need to panic” and “you need to calm down” are hearty battle cries from well-meaning folks who aren’t partial to anxiety or are trying to subtly soothe themselves. But denying the reality of our feelings during this time does a great dishonour to our emotional wellbeing and lived experience.
What to do if your anxiety is through the roof because of the Aussie bushfires
What a fucking year this week has been. Vast swathes of Australia are up in flames, people have lost homes, livelihoods and their lives, half a billion of our native animals have perished and the folks in power seem capable of little more than forcing limp handshakes. It can be an overwhelming and anxiety-inducing time for anyone who loves this beautiful country, not to mention anyone who cares about the fate of our planet.
Not your usual mid-year reflections
The middle of the year is a great time for reflection and we’ve got two great forms of reflection for you to try. These two new ideas have one thing in common: no judgement. So put away your ol' 2019 resolutions, tuck them somewhere you’d forget and let’s get started at turning this year into something we’re actually be proud of.
- 1
- 2