Your Guide to Staying Sane During the Pandemic

The world is temporarily closed, and our mental health is struggling. This guide will help.

To be entirely honest, I’ve been struggling to maintain my sanity during the pandemic, and I work from home on an average, non-pandemic day. I thrive working behind the scenes in the quiet of my empty at home office, but I am really struggling lately.

It could be the fact that I don’t have my morning workout at the gym anymore, or that I can’t slowly sip my latte inside my local Starbucks. These luxuries bring me tranquility! And, they are now gone.

I don’t have a tennis or basketball court in my backyard or a fancy mirror covered, floor padded, Peloton filled, and glitter-filled home gym.

Instead, I’m a full time working mom charged with homeschooling a 4-year-old while my husband is working from his office downtown.

Frankly, I’m losing it.

Last week I ate a 4 lbs bag of Reece’s peanut butter cups (over a period of a week. Not all in one day. I feel like I really needed to disclose that). Today I nearly finished off an entire DiGiorno. Obviously, I’m a stress eater. I’ll likely come out of this thing 40 lbs heavier. On the bright side, we avoid the grocery store the best we can, and I’m all out of Reece’s cups — and pizza for that matter.