The current climate of unpredictability and change can feel a bit overwhelming.
Dr Susan David says at times like this we need to understand our emotions but not let them call the shots. Photo: supplied
Dr Susan David tells Derek Handley how to deal with your emotions - the good ones and the bad ones.
She said one thing that society, particularly a very amped up, technological society does not allow for is time to just be. To think. To reset."
"For many people it [the lockdown] will be the first opportunity for many people, even in decades to actually to that. That's a powerful thing."
Dr David is hopeful we will look back on lockdown as a time of post-traumatic growth. A period with huge difficulty, but also a period that will teach people about their inner selves.
But she understands for some that might evoke what's called comparative suffering: "The idea that I'm suffering, but not suffering relative to someone else and that feels wrong."
"We aren't either or as people. We are both. We are capacious enough to both empathise with others and their suffering and recognise that parts of this, for us, might be ok."
"That's not something to beat yourself up about."
Together at Home is a series of conversations held between Derek Handley from the Aera Foundation and a range of experts from around the world about how to cope in these strange times.
