These healthy coping mechanisms helped me through early on in the pandemic, and I should be talking about them (consider them recommendations.):
- Positive Lists: A regular list of positive things - daily, weekly- all things count, both banal and monumental, from cleaning the kitchen to checking something off my list to getting through a day to leaving the crossroads I reached in revising my second horror novel and the ensuing weeks of blocked agony
- Physical: stretching every morning, working out, doing push-ups and sit-ups
every other morning, dancing spontaneously, walking around the neighbourhood
when weather permitted
- Watching movies and shows, from Movies 'n Stuff but also free
from the Ottawa Public Library and kanopy, and itunes, Netflix,
DisneyPlus, as well as YouTube for virtual panels (ComicCon@Home 2020,
TylerCon, the KGB Fantastic Fiction series out of Manhattan, run by Ellen
Datlow and Matthew Kressel)
- Listening to podcasts, primarily John Siuntres’ Word Balloon outta' Chicago, my go-to podcast for in-depth, sportscaster-style interviews with
comics creators. I found Sasha Wood's Casually Comics on YouTube hilarious,
irreverent, pithy and sexy.
- Reading books such as Oscar Wilde's The
Picture of Dorian Gray, Sonya Taaffe's Forget the Sleepless Shores: Stories, Adam McOmber's Jesus and John;
comics; John Allison's wonderful and life-full Giant Days recommended by Amal
El-Mohtar, Gail Simone's Clean Room,
a vast conspiratorial number reminiscent of Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, if that's possible...;
anything by Tom King (thanks, rob mclennan, for recommending!), Chip
Zdarsky, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid, Jerry Ordway, Alex de Campi)
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