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Hey everyone, I'm Julie Shiffman and as you know already the news is rampant

around the coronavirus. These days you really can't go anywhere without seeing

or hearing about it. It's in the news, it's all over the internet, social media, it's probably

in your emails, your job or the schools around you might be making or taking precautions.

And of course, there are ongoing conversations and non-stop questions around what's happening and what's going to happen and it just keeps going and going.

I'm not here to give you any information about it. You already know how important it is to

take precautions that are necessary given your particular situation. However, I am

here to help you to manage any anxiety or angst that you might have about it. What I know to

be true is that it can be very easy to feel scared and anxious and even panicked at

times like this, but I also know that fear, anxiety, and panic will not help to make the situation any better,

and it certainly won't help you to feel any better.

In some ways, the fear is almost worse than the virus itself, as I'm sure that you have seen or maybe even felt.

There are many things that we can control in our life, but there are also some things that are way

beyond our control.

You can choose your own thoughts, your actions, your

decisions, even your choices, and believe it or not you can actually even

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