A Pandemic Chat With Nadine Burke Harris, California’s First-Ever Surgeon General

  • 📰 voguemagazine
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 48 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 22%
  • Publisher: 51%

United States Headlines News

United States Latest News,United States Headlines

As we turn towards the mental health crisis that has developed over the course of the pandemic, DrBurkeHarris has a few pieces of advice

holds up. Rob Sapolsky is brilliant. I think he's a genius. But I’ve also noticed I've been reading more books that inspire me. I absolutely love this one called. It’s about Frances Perkins. The whole safety net. She created it as Labor secretary under FDR. It just shows the power for people to create change. All the stuff we have now: workplace safety and a 40-hour workweek and all that stuff.Exactly.

You’re going to get it wrong sometimes. Have enough grace for yourself. Forgive yourself enough. Know you’re doing your best and you’re not going to get it right every time. That is what gives us the space to be open to when we don’t get it right. If you feel like you have to be perfect and someone tells you that you made a, you feel bad about yourself. I just assume I’m making mistakes, like, all the time. [Laughs]I’m grateful when people point it out to me.

That once-in-a-hundred-years part is so tough because what happens the next time a normal sniffle is making the rounds? I could see people almost having pandemic flashbacks.Is that just part of it? This is the difference between mental health, which is like going to the hospital with a broken leg, and what could be called mental fitness, which is more like hitting the gym to prevent frailty. We are not good at building mental fitness into our life and our day.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 715. in US

United States Latest News, United States Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.