Tips to Keep Your Sanity During COVID-19

In a matter of a week, our lives have been turned upside down. We went from our regular schedules to “social distancing.” From dinner dates with friends to homecooked meals alone. Everything we knew changed.

Staying at home should be goals for anyone (right?!) It’s time to work on those outstanding projects, and visions you didn’t think you had time for. But the truth is this rapid change to our lives is overwhelming. And the same happy go lucky person might be swamped with emotions they haven’t felt in a while.

So I am here to let you know that if you’re not handling this well… you’re not alone and honestly it’s normal!

Here are some tips to keep your sanity during this quarantine:

1. Shower and get dressed everyday!!!!

This is a non-negotiable friends. The quickest way to slip into a slump is to stop taking care of yourself. Do the hair, makeup, whatever is your normal routine. Just make sure you feel clean and ready to take on the day.

2. Make a schedule

Put together a rough schedule of what you want your day to look like. Goals you wish to accomplish that day, so you don’t feel like the entire day was wasteful. Personally, I live off of productivity and if I don’t feel like I’m living with purpose I start to slip into that slump.

3. Plan to go outside at least once

The fresh air makes anyone feel a bit better. Make a point (and schedule it) to take a walk, sit on the porch, check the mail… whatever you gotta do to get outside.

4. Facetime with friends

Although you can’t meet in person, you can still Facetime! So reach out to a friend that you haven’t spoken to in a while. It is almost guaranteed everyone is doing the same thing as you… sitting at home so they will be delighted with your call! Have more than a few friends you want to facetime at once… use Zoom!

5. Get off social media and do something else

It is so easy to fall into the trap of obsessing with other people’s lives, especially when you’re stuck at home with nothing to do. You will be pulled into the vortex of never-ending refreshing and endless scrolling. Instead, you could read a book, do a dance exercise from a youtube video, paint (no tools? do it digitally), draw a picture, clean out your closet, watch a documentary (i recommend anything but Pandemic on Netflix right now), play an instrument, cook a meal following a recipe, put clothes for sale online, bake, take millions of photos of your pets… you get the picture.