Video Resource: Embodied Coping in COVID-19 Crisis

This video outlines 4 simple embodied coping practices, which may be useful to manage anxiety and panic during social isolation, lockdown, quarantine, and response to the COVID-19 disaster. You can watch the whole video or forward to a particular practice.

​The presenter is the Rev. Dr. Storm Swain, the Frederick Houk Borsch Associate Professor of Anglican Studies, Pastoral Care, and Theology at the United Lutheran Seminary, and author of 'Trauma and Transformation at Ground Zero: A Pastoral Theology,' Fortress, 2011.

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Resource Overview:
Watch the whole video above, or use these timestamps to skip to a particular practice.

Instinctual Response in a time of Crisis or Disaster- Skip to this section 0:25

• Flight
• Fight 
• Freeze
• Tend and Befriend

Embodied Coping Practices- Skip to this section 2:49

• Breathe 3/4 - Skip to this practice 4:35
• The Middle Finger - Skip to this practice 6:02
• The 4 B's - Skip to this practice 11:06
• Socially Locating Prayer - Skip to this practice 14:20

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Read more from Rev. Dr. Storm Swain here.