The discomfort you’re feeling is grief

“The discomfort you are feeling is grief” – this is the title to a recent Harvard Business Review article in response to the coronavirus – and when I read it, I felt an immediate feeling of … relief.

I guess for me, it was actually putting a word to a set of jumbled feelings that weren’t making sense to me. The article goes on to explain the various stages of grief and gives examples of the things we might be thinking and experiencing in our day to day lives in response to the coronavirus.

It ends with some practical examples of what we can all do to help navigate our sense of well-being, with four actions:

• Find balance in your thinking
• Stay in the present
• Let go of what you cannot control
• Stock up on compassion.

I thought I’d summarise the article in the attached drawing, as a visual reminder of what I can do every day.

Harvard Business Review has made all its coronavirus coverage free for all readers. You can find the original article here – it’s well worth the read.