Welcome to Black Girl burnout.

Kelly here.

And today's episode is all about opting out of COVID anxiety.

If you're anything like me,

the past couple years have been brutal.

And COVID seems to be a part of all of our lives.

And every time we feel like maybe things are getting back to normal or getting better,

it seems like there's some story or some new wave or so some conversation that is happening

that brings the anxiety up all over again.

It's really easy to get caught up in that and just constantly cycling through ups and downs, highs and lows.

Do I have a cold? Do I have a cough or is it COVID? I think that's a question we've asked

ourselves now for so long. And I wanted today to be about ways to stay calm and to opt out

of the struggle of that anxiety that we're all dealing with to some

degree and instead opt into ways to keep yourself safe and healthy and more importantly sane

during these really difficult times. And there's no shortage of resources to help you in this endeavor. Today, I'm

going to tell you about some of the things that are coming out of Better Help, which is a mental

health online platform where people can connect it to licensed mental health professionals

and some of the suggestions they have on how to manage COVID anxiety. And as always, I want to end with a practice

for you to utilize with yourself, something you could do today right now, right the second,

to better improve your feelings of anxiety around this virus.

So what are some of the things we can do?

We're going to talk about five of them today.

...