Brief Introduction
Coping and Managing Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic (and beyond)Description
Mental Survival Guide -COVID-19 Edition is a stress management course with an added emphasis on the mental distress caused during the COVID-19 pandemic. The information is relevant during and after the pandemic for creating a stress resilient life.
I wrote this course because of the staggering mental health statistics I was reading in major publications concerning the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects on mental health.
These included :
Calls to a national mental-health hotline were up 1,000%
700% increase Mental Distress Among Americans That’s Tripled During the Pandemic
70% of Americans experienced moderate-to-severe mental distress
one-in-five Americans say they have had a physical reaction when thinking about the outbreak
The COVID-19 crisis has impacted people’s romantic relationship
Why are people experiencing so much depression, anxiety and other mental distress during the pandemic. There are many reasons:
The feeling of being isolated
People have lost their jobs and incomes
Schools have been closed, Lives have been disrupted
And the fear of the COVID-19 Virus
The mind and body have been scientifically proven to be connected. The stress you experience with your thoughts and emotions affect your mental and physical health. Heart attacks, strokes, cancers, ulcers, sleep disorders, feeling hopeless and depressed can be signs of stress. You can wear a mask to protect yourself against the virus but it won’t help much to reduce your stress.
I’ve been giving stress management seminars for over a decade to Fortune 500 companies, corporate executives, healthcare workers, physicians, attorneys, mental health specialist and the general population. Never has anyone seen anything quite like what we are seeing now that affects people’s mental health like this pandemic.
That is why I wrote the Mental Survival Guide for COVID-19, to help protect you from the stress and it’s consequences.
The course includes the following:
Mental Survival Guide book (PDF) download (226 pages)
44 Lessons that teach you about stress and how to minimize or eliminate from your life. Each lesson is divided into 3 easy video lectures with a text download. Each short and easy to understand lesson teaches you something about stress, an exercise to decrease or eliminate stress and a journal entry to help you understand your personal stress and how to apply the lesson to your life.
Part 1. Something to Learn: Knowledge – Information to help you understand stress.
Part 2. Something to Do: Stress Management Tool – A technique to reduce your stress.
Part 3. Something to Write: Journal Entry – A place to record your life and thoughts.
You will see from the Table of Contents that I also divided the book into 3 Sections. Section I will help you learn about and identify stress in your body. Sometimes people don’t realize their physical symptoms are stress related. This section helps with that. Section II covers common stressors people experience, from work to home and relationships. Section III focuses on how to manage stress. Each section has valuable information to help you reduce stress.
Note. You do not need to use every technique in this course to reduce your stress. Feel free to find some stress reduction techniques that work best for you and practice using them. The more you use them the more effective they become.
Above all, enjoy doing them!
Section I: Recognizing Stress in the Body and Mind
Lesson 1: History of Stress
Lesson 2: Definitions of Stress
Lesson 3: Types of Stress
Lesson 4: The Body and Stress
Lesson 5: Stress Predictors
Lesson 6: The “Fight, Flight, or Freeze” Response
Lesson 7: Health and Stress
Lesson 8: The Mind and Stress
Lesson 9: Emotions and Stress
Lesson 10: Signs that your Mind is Stressed
Lesson 11: Perceptions and Attitudes
Lesson 12: Values and Goals
Section II: Life’s Common Stressors
Lesson 13: Time and Stress
Lesson 14: Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule)
Lesson 15: Procrastination
Lesson 16: Financial Stress
Lesson 17: Organizational Stress
Lesson 18: Work Stress
Lesson 19: Work from Home
Lesson 20: Anger and Stress
Lesson 21: Couple’s Stress
Lesson 22: Parenting Stress
Lesson 23: Relationship Stress
Lesson 24: Caregiver Stress – Compassion Fatigue
Section III: Managing Stress
Lesson 25: The ABC’s of Stress Management
Lesson 26: De-Stress Engineering
Lesson 27: Survival Strategies for Life-Threatening Stressors
Lesson 28: Physical Activity
Lesson 29: Sleep and Stress
Lesson 30: Sense of Touch and Stress
Lesson 31: Sense of Sight and Stress
Lesson 32: Sense of Taste and Stress
Lesson 33: Sense of Smell and Stress
Lesson 34: Sense of Hearing and Stress
Lesson 35: Mindfulness
Lesson 36: Mental Imagery and Visualization
Lesson 37: Resilience
Lesson 38: Social Support
Lesson 39 Humor
Lesson 40 Forgiveness
Lesson 41 Gratitude
Lesson 42 Love
Lesson 43 Spirituality
Lesson 44 Maintaining Your Stress-Resilient Life
You will also learn the following stress tools to help cope and manage your stress.
Stress Tool 1: The Relaxation Response
Stress Tool 2: Value of Stress Reduction
Stress Tool 3: Goals for Reducing Stress
Stress Tool 4: One Minute Body Scan
Stress Tool 5: Autogenic Training
Stress Tool 6: Diaphragmatic Breathing
Stress Tool 7: Hand on Belly Breathing
Stress Tool 8: Alternate Nostril Breathing
Stress Tool 9: Know Your Emotions
Stress Tool 10: Complete Breathing (Zen Breathing)
Stress Tool 11: Guided Imagery
Stress Tool 12: Guided Imagery II
Stress Tool 13: Urgent/Important Principle
Stress Tool 14: Using the Pareto Principle
Stress Tool 15: Stop Procrastinating
Stress Tool 16: Create a Budget
Stress Tool 17: Steps to Getting Organized
Stress Tool 18: Making SMART Goals
Stress Tool 19: Work/Time Routine
Stress Tool 20: Meditation
Stress Tool 21: Active Listening
Stress Tool 22: Parent Communication
Stress Tool 23: Quick Calming Techniques
Stress Tool 24: Avoiding Caregiver Burnout
Stress Tool 25: Thought Stopping
Stress Tool 26: Solution Focused Visualization
Stress Tool 27: Fear vs. Danger
Stress Tool 28: Exercise to Reduce Stress
Stress Tool 29: Dream Therapy
Stress Tool 30: Touch and Relax
Stress Tool 31: Color Therapy
Stress Tool 32: Eat Away Stress
Stress Tool 33: Aromatherapy
Stress Tool 34: Nature’s Sights and Sounds Therapy
Stress Tool 35: Mindfulness Meditation
Stress Tool 36: Visualization
Stress Tool 37: Building Resilience
Stress Tool 38: Support Therapy
Lesson 39 Laugh Away Your Stress
Lesson 40 Nine Steps to Forgiveness
Lesson 41 Gratitude in Action
Lesson 42 Life is a Lesson in Love
Lesson 43 Prayer
Lesson 44 Relaxation Reminders
What are the experts saying about the Mental Survival Guide?
Being a psychologist in New York City, I’m on the front lines of the COVID-19 mental health pandemic. The symptoms and casualties of stress are obvious everywhere. Todd’s book and course, Mental Survival Guide for COVID-19 , gives everyone great tools they can use now to overcome the emotional and mental challenges everyone is facing during these times and when life returns to normal. Read this book and regain your peace of mind.
Mark Borg, Jr., PhD
Author: Irrelationship: How We Use Dysfunctional Relationships to Hide from Intimacy
Navy SEALS taught me to be tough in battle and Todd taught me how to be tough in life. Take his course Mental Survival Guide so you can win the mental battle during this pandemic.
Mike Bay
U.S. Navy SEAL Team 5, ret.
Todd has written this masterpiece in order to help those who are in need of a feel-better and/or start-over. The skills in this book could help anyone overcome a struggle that might be experienced during their own personalized pandemic situation.
Samantha Cannon LCSW, EMDR
Are you looking for a comprehensive stress management program specifically designed to help you excel in these uncertain COVID -19 times? If so, look no further. Todd Huston weaves a tapestry of personal and professional expertise to create a tangible survival guide in 44 digestible lessons. Whether you are a first time learner or seasoned health care professional, Todd’s handbook will become a priceless life survival guide to be used for years to come.
Debra A Stone LCSW, APRN
Requirements
- Requirements
- There are no prerequisites for this course.
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