Wellness Post-Covid

The last few years have been a real rollercoaster ride.

Life has given many of us unexpected challenges and changes.

Business, education, healthcare, gaming, and travel are just a few parts of our life that have shifted to less personal approaches.

We have lost many of the personal interactions that form the threads of our personal and social connections; our sense of community belonging.

Without a strong sense of community belonging, we often feel less secure. We feel more anxious, more tense, more alone.

To replace this void we now have many electronic methods that give us virtual connections. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tik-Tok, X-Box, Zoom, and thousands of other connections are available with a single click.

But it seems that instead of actually fulfilling a natural need of human interaction and personal connection these electronic relationships are actually driving up rates of anxiety and worry.

The path to wellness needs to include an acknowledgement that gaming, posting and scrolling are temporary steps to connect with others. They serve valuable functions in many of our lives, and have become vital components to how we communicate, do business, and are entertained.

But at the end of the day, after all the scrolling and clicking has been done, we often walk away feeling like we have met certain needs and have been entertained, but something still often feels like it is missing.

Personal connection provides something intrinsic, natural to our species. Substitute relationships are temporary steps, band-aids, but not internally fulfilling.

So take that step to connect, have a conversation, visit someone, listen to what other people have to say. Rebuild community one personal interaction at a time.