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Rich Jones Recommendations

Rich Jones Recommendations

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Hard Working & Solid

There are many good people working hard to provide solid mental health and substance use therapy and coaching.

There are tried and true therapeutic interventions.

The “self-care” list is pretty consistent, containing the standard stress management tips and mental health hygiene recommendations.

For example, this is list on the CDC website:

Ways to cope with stress:

  • Take breaks from watching, reading, or listening to news stories, including social media. Hearing about the pandemic repeatedly can be upsetting.
  • Take care of your body. Take deep breaths, stretch, or meditate
  • Try to eat healthy, well-balanced meals.
  • Exercise regularly, get plenty of sleep.
  • Avoid alcohol and drugs.
  • Make time to unwind. Try to do some other activities you enjoy.
  • Connect with others. Talk with people you trust about your concerns and how you are feeling”.

You can check it out yourself, but every list is basically some form of that CDC list.

Check out Psychology Today. Virtually identical.

No one can argue with those recommendations. However, I vow to work hard to discuss things that are different than that basic list.

I will not say the same thing that all the other providers/experts say.

I will add something different. Or at least I will try to add something different.

Tonight’s Recommendation:

1. Create a Firewall

Create a firewall between work and “home time”. Today I spent 13 hours with zoom meetings packed one after the other, conference calls, FaceTime news interview.

With only small slivers of time in between the calls/zoom meetings.

And then all the sudden BOOM !

The day is over. And I’m home.

2. Ritual & Routine

I recommend you create some type of ritual and routine that marks the end of work and the beginning of home time.

Analogous to someone coming home from manual labor.

Your hands are dirty, your clothes are dirty. You wash your hands, you change your clothes for obvious reasons.

However, this also serves as a transition from work to home.

3. Consistently

Figure out some type of routine that fits your individual circumstances.

Change clothes. Take some time alone. Communicate the plan to your family.

Maybe you go for a run.

Maybe you sit down and journal.

The important thing is to follow this routine consistently.

Otherwise, it won’t be a routine.

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