Coping with Anxiety, Grief and Fear during Covid with Lia Avellino

In these unprecedented times, we are all searching for ways to cope with the current reality of the coronavirus pandemic. Enduring global and personal losses, all while adjusting to some kind of new normal, many of us are finding that our mental and emotional state is difficult to manage or make peace with. 

Here at the Going Beyond podcast we’ve committed to giving you the kinds of conversations that will uplift you and provide you with the tools to help you get through this time! For our first conversation in this bonus series, we called upon relational psychotherapist Lia Avellino to talk to help us understand our anxieties, the emotional ups and downs, and how to manage so many levels of unknown.

Lia even closes our episode with an anxiety releasing meditation- don’t miss it!! 

In this episode Randi and Lia dive into:

-What is anxiety and how does it serve us? What is its purpose? 

-How tracking emotions through noting our thoughts and physical sensations helps us stay present in our experience.  

-The three markers of transitions: fear, grief and anxiety and how we can create space for them. 

-Anticipatory anxiety and grief: naming what’s within our “I don’t know” and finding acceptance with what we don’t know. 

-Accepting and normalizing our every experience: the good and bad. 

-The search for meaning within the chaos and pain.  

-And lastly a beautiful anxiety releasing meditation led by Lia. 

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