The other side of languishing is flourishing. Here s how to get there
5 May, 2021 11:39 PM
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After a year of trauma, isolation and grief, how long will it take before life finally feels good? Photo /123RF
After a year of trauma, isolation and grief, how long will it take before life finally feels good? Photo /123RF
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By: Dani Blum
Research shows that the pandemic took a toll on our overall well-being and left many of us drained. Here are seven simple steps to get you thriving again. With vaccination rates on the rise, hope is in the air. But after a year of trauma, isolation and grief, how long will it take before life finally
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The first step toward better overall well-being is to think about how you’re doing in different parts of your life. Our quiz can help. Cristina Spanò
At Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program, Tyler J. VanderWeele uses this quiz to gauge a person’s overall physical, mental and emotional well-being. While he says there’s no specific score to determine if someone is definitely flourishing, the higher the score, the better. Just taking the quiz, and reflecting on the questions, can put you on a path to making positive changes. And comparing yourself to the national average it was about 70 before the pandemic and 65 in June 2020 can give you a sense of where you stand.
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Living with loneliness as COVID-19 pandemic rages on
Loneliness has been a pernicious side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the world approaches a new year of social distancing and isolation, public health experts are exploring the long-term mental and physical health consequences of loneliness, and offering strategies to help people stay more connected.
Early in the pandemic, Jeremy Nobel, a lecturer at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, launched the Stuck at Home (Together) initiative through his Foundation for Art & Healing. The project encourages people to participate in creative activities and share them with others.
“People are typically embarrassed or ashamed about loneliness because they think it ties to some kind of inadequacy or deficiency on their part,” Nobel said in an article in the January-February 2021 Harvard Magazine. He noted that the collective experience of isolating during COVID-19 may change this perception. “So what’s different about this
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Bradley Riew ’18 had a calendar reliably packed from 9 a.m. to midnight. To him, that didn’t seem so bad. “You know,” he says, “you have nine hours to sleep.”
On top of his schoolwork and various extracurriculars, he spent about 20 hours a week volunteering at local homeless shelters. He acknowledges now how well he fit the “overworked Harvard student” stereotype, but during sophomore year the commitments didn’t strike him as unusual. “I was just doing what everyone else was doing,” he says. “I was just absorbed in that culture of go, go, go, go, go.”