How To Maintain Your Mental Health During COVID-19

Our country's fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic has been focused on ensuring everyone's physical health. Stay-at-home orders, non-essential business closures, regular hand washing, and wearing face masks and other protective equipment in public have all gone a long way toward flattening the curve of COVID-19 cases and making sure we keep ourselves and each other safe. But there is more to staying healthy than simply protecting yourself and fyour family from infection; it also means recognizing the stress that the COVID-19 pandemic is placing on our mental well-being.

Introduce these simple strategies into your life and you will feel the benefits.

GIVE - Your time, your words, your presence

BE ACTIVE - Do what you can, enjoy what you do, move your mood

CONNECT - Talk and listen, be there, and feel connected with friends and family

TAKE NOTICE - Remember the simple things that give you joy

KEEP LEARNING - Embrace new experiences, see opportunities, and surprise yourself