Southwest Counseling professionals offer advice on quarantining

The lockdown is preventing us from seeing our friends and makes most of us feel lonely and isolated. Fortunately, there are many ways that we can use to ease our loneliness and modern technology is also coming to the rescue, so here are some tips from Southwest Counseling (https://southwestcounseling.org/), Christian counseling professionals, to make the quarantine and the lack of face to face meetings easier to endure:

  • Distract yourself – finding a hobby that can take your mind off your loneliness. You can start exploring new recipes, knitting, painting, you can dust your guitar and start playing music again or you can start painting or exercising – any kind of activity that gives you joy will make you feel better in these lonely times;
  • Use video calls – there are lots of great applications available for video calling – they offer high-quality connections that will make you feel almost as if you were sharing a laugh with your friends sitting at the same table on a great terrace in the city;
  • Use emails and other forms of communication, too – text messages, chatting and emails are also great for staying in touch with friends – written messaging is less instant, therefore it gives you more time to formulate your thoughts and feelings.