Essential Skill 7: Manage Stress and Anxiety
To embrace the ambiguity of a postpandemic world, the seventh essential skill to develop is to manage stress and anxiety. Living and working through the COVID-19 global pandemic provided a year’s worth of successive traumas. Mental health, already a national concern, rose in prominence as millions of people struggled to deal with the limitations, restrictions, and realities of living through a global pandemic. According to one study “anxiety and depression rates skyrocketed during the pandemic, with a 93 percent increase in people participating in anxiety screenings.”1 It would be difficult to find another abbreviated period of time where rates of mental health issues such as anxiety and ...
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