It's important to take care of YOU during this time - Your emotional mind & body.

The freedom that we all had has been taken away from us for the time being in order to try and stop the spread of COVID-19. It’s a worrying time for EVERYONE.

This can make your anxiety worse as you worry about what all this means, being forced to stay at home in Lockdown for a period of time. I know as Chelsea is becoming increasingly anxious from hearing the news each day. At this time, it’s so important to take care of YOU – your emotional mind and your body.

Welcome to the life of Self Isolation & Social Distancing ~ It's the life anyone with anxiety is already living....

Everyone will react differently to what is happening around them. You may become more depressed and worried making your anxiety worse; it’s ok to feel this way. This is an uncertain time for EVERYONE, and although the thought of staying at home may be daunting and challenging, making you bored and frustrated, it’s important to remind ourselves that you are helping to not just protect YOU but OTHERS by doing this.

Self Care Part #1 and Self Care Part #2

REMEMBER this is not FOREVER. If everyone does their part, it is a small sacrifice to make in order to get back to our normal healthy way of life.

Here are some tips and advice on how to look after your mental health during this time while you stay at home.

~Don’t isolate yourself if you are at home with family or living with friends. Be part of what is going on in your home. By isolating yourself, it is only going to make you wallow in what is so wrong with the situation- fuelling your anxiety and depression. Unfortunately, there are some that have no choice but to be by themselves. Make sure you use social media as your contact with others, make a list of people in your life you want to connect with and start by scheduling face time with them. ~Stop looking at all the negatives of why you have to stay at home. Ok, so there may not be too many positives right now as this is not fun for ANYONE. But think of fun ways to keep in contact with family and friends who are doing precisely the same thing as you.Turing a negative into a positive

~ You may not be able to all sit with a group watching a movie, but Netflix is letting you all log in together to watch the same movie. (#Netflix)

~ Face time a group of friends for a chat, it takes some getting used to, but so does anything new. By the end of this, you will be a pro and quite use to face-timing a conversation with people. A great way to keep in touch with friends and nice to see a friendly face at the other end. (#FaceTime)

~Maybe you are not a reader of books, but have you ever listened to Podcasts? Well, let me tell you there is an entire new world out there with so many different articles to keep you occupied. I just discovered how great Podcast were the other month!! (#Podcasts) Please send me a message and Share your favourite Podcast with me.

There’s an App for that!!!

~Can’t get to the gym or yoga? There are a lot of places letting you log in from home, YES there are Apps for Yoga. The gym is a little trickier as you may not have weights, etc., but again there are Apps to help you with your work out:

Watch anywhere, anytime on your iPhone, Apple TV (or mirror them onto your TV through Apple TV) Or stream through your computer.

ClassPass Live

Class Pass lets you try thousands of popular workouts from home for any level for an average of a 30 min workout. There are a variety of workouts for anyone for Cardio, strength and yoga (harder-than-life boot camps, to slow flow yoga). Find what you’re looking for with one app:

~Download the app

~click “Explore digital workouts.”

~Make sure you check out what equipment is needed before you start as some will require weights

~Btw they are not live classes as you may think by the name of the company!!!

Class Pass Free Trial for new members only.

Yoga

Yin Classes

These are a slow-paced practice that uses long deep stretching, to enhance joint mobility and flexibility, followed by a short guided meditation. This has been highly recommended by a friend of mine who absolutely loves the app.

Yin Classes Free trial for 20 days

The Yoga Collective

1,000+ Online yoga classes at your fingertips. From beginners to advanced classes offered between 5 – 60 minute, so you can squeeze in a quick class to start the day with, or a longer class for any level. As a bonus, there are some Nourishing and Fresh Recipes to make, as well as some guided meditations.

The Yoga Collective Free trial for 15 days