Resilience in Unity
Rarely has health and wellbeing been such a universally hot topic. Before Covid 19 appeared, mental health was enjoying increased acknowledgement and recognition, as wellbeing advocates campaigned to achieve parity of esteem: equal valuing of mental and physical health. Now physical health has (understandably and necessarily) stormed back into the spotlight, there are concerns that emotional and psychological wellbeing will have even more difficulty stepping out of the shadows of it’s richer, better understood and more widely acknowledged cousin. This is despite the fact that universal crises like Covid 19 have an undeniable effect on how we feel. Paul Daley’s piece in the Guardian recently suggested there will be a wave of severe mental health disorders as a consequence of Covid 19 and the new way of living it has bestowed on us. As anxiety increases, isolation takes its toll, unemployment rises and our normal routines are thwarted, Paul argues there will be a significant es...