Continuum Insights
The Long Haul: Taking Care During Crisis
Many types of birds make annual migrations, necessary for their access to food and breeding grounds. The distance record for these massive survival journeys belongs to the arctic tern, who flies a wandering path of 40,000 or more miles roundtrip from the northern Arctic to Antarctica yearly.
Migrating through this time of COVID, and all the challenges it brings, can feel like the arctic terns’ adventures. We keep flying without really knowing when or where we might land.
Six Months In: Crisis Fatigue
We have rolled into the sixth month of the pandemic and all that brings with it.
For many in front line care or leadership positions, the past few months have been especially challenging, and there’s no end in sight. We talk about defining a new normal, but what that might look like keeps shifting on us. After all the adaptations, uncertainty, and losses of innumerable varieties, we’re hearing that people are hitting walls of deep fatigue.