Jolene Roehlkepartain
What Happened to You During the Pandemic?
There’s a lot of discussion of before the pandemic and after the pandemic, but we’re missing an important part of the conversation: What...
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Jolene Roehlkepartain
- May 18, 2021
- 2 min
5 Tips to Calm Your Re-Entry Anxiety
As people get vaccinated and our society opens up, we’re now bumping into a new phenomenon: re-entry anxiety. According to an American...
Jolene Roehlkepartain
- Apr 20, 2021
- 2 min
3 Ways the Pandemic Destroys Creativity
Shakespeare wrote King Lear during an epidemic. Sir Isaac Newton invented calculus during the bubonic plague. Experts say a pandemic...
Jolene Roehlkepartain
- Mar 23, 2021
- 2 min
3 Ways to Get through Great Grief
How are you handling the weight of great grief? Each one of us has experienced many losses during this pandemic. Within one five-day...
Jolene Roehlkepartain
- Mar 2, 2021
- 2 min
When You’ve Hit the Pandemic Wall
BAM! Hitting the pandemic wall hurts. Over the past year, we’ve been barraged from every angle with stress from the pandemic, work,...
Jolene Roehlkepartain
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
When Every Day Is Blursday
What day is it? During the pandemic, every day blurs together since we’ve lost our daily routines and anchors. Some have said that every...
Jolene Roehlkepartain
- Dec 22, 2020
- 1 min
Celebrating the Holidays Safely and Creatively
Many people—including myself—are longing to celebrate the holidays in the ways we have in the past. But it’s not safe. So how do we mark...
Jolene Roehlkepartain
- Oct 7, 2020
- 1 min
Walking the Alphabet
How are you caring for yourself during the Pandemic? We’re walking the alphabet. City planners named the streets in our community after...
Jolene Roehlkepartain
- Aug 19, 2020
- 1 min
Taking a Vacation During the Pandemic
We need to take a break. From work. From the routines. From the pandemic. How are you getting away—by not getting away? I’ve observed...
Jolene Roehlkepartain
- Jul 22, 2020
- 2 min
Embracing Your Inner Tortoise
As the news creates a sense of panic and urgency (with many of us feeling helpless about what to do), what if we slowed down and embraced...
Jolene Roehlkepartain
- May 13, 2020
- 1 min
Maneuvering through Chronic Stress
How are you finding your way through the chronic stress of this pandemic? At first, the adjustment was shocking before becoming somewhat...
Jolene Roehlkepartain
- Apr 1, 2020
- 2 min
Being Hopeful and Positive During the Pandemic
As COVID-19 races around the world making people sick, it’s easy to get overwhelmed, panicked, and helpless. But many people are stepping...
Jolene Roehlkepartain
- Mar 15, 2020
- 2 min
Caring for Yourself and Others During Terrifying Times
Outright panic is spreading faster than this pandemic, and people are social distancing, finding themselves in quarantines, and putting...