Dr. Erin Ambrose joins Rex and Mark to discuss ways of cultivating mental and spiritual wellness during times of crisis.

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Welcome to Jessup think I'm your host Mark Moore, and your co host Rex Gurney and we are not from our regular studio today, are we? Exactly. We're back again to our social distance podcast. And today Rex on the show. We have Dr. Erin Ambrose. She's one of our esteemed psychology professors. And she's really here to help us and help you as listeners understand how to how to cultivate mental and spiritual wellness in times of crisis. I'm really looking forward to what she has to say. Yeah, we hope you enjoy the show. Erin, thank you so much for for being on the show. And and Rex and I really right now, we need your help.

0:50

I'm going crazy in here. I just don't know how I'm gonna make the next. You know, a few weeks, much less than next few months. happens. And so I need some help, Erin.

1:00

Yeah. And Rex is Rex is he's now Where are you three weeks into the ponytail? Is that what's happening? I actually ran that by a class. My wife is I talk to them for the quarantine ponytail. But, but now I am we're really excited to have you on the show and just kind of help us and help our listeners really look at like, Okay, how do we? How do we cultivate mental and spiritual wellness in a time of crisis?

1:33

Yeah. Because we are all in crisis right now. Right? I mean, this is really unprecedented, that we have our whole state, our whole country, the whole world, really in a moment of crisis all at the same time. Even though, you know, this is not the first pandemic, we can go back, you know, well, Rex, you to be able to tell us

1:57

that this has happened. I have a book plagues throughout human history. He reads it, he reads it at night to compare themselves. It's been worse, it's been worse.

2:11

But the thing is, you know, that that in the time that we are, currently we all are able to see the crisis that we're all in. So historically, we wouldn't have been able to see the crisis that was happening in other parts of the world, we wouldn't be able to experience it in real time, like we are now. So this it really is unprecedented. Because we are not only experiencing our own crisis in our own town and our own state in our own country, but we're also experiencing vicariously it crisis all over the globe at the same time. All of us are in this period of panic, fear, anxiety, stress unknown. I mean, there's just so much so it makes sense that, that we have this type of conversation like how do I personally stay? Okay. You have all this that's going on around us?

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Yeah. And it's, I think it's really good that you they point out that the fact that we can see this happening and almost kind of could see it coming and hitting in in waves, does just build that anxiety, I remember the first couple of days of it, I just kept, you know, refreshing the different counters and being like, oh, man, the numbers are going up. And this is happening in Italy, in Spain. And it was just like that just added to it.

3:42

I had to stop doing that. I totally right. I had to take the things off, take the icons off my phone and take them off my computer.

3:51

Yeah. And it's interesting, because I'm actually during this time reading a Dorothy Day biography. And in in 1918 to 1920 she actually was kind of wanting to change your life and went to nursing school in New York. So she went to nursing school at the height of the Spanish flu epidemic. But it was also the tail end of world war one or one, right. And so she was like she was working 12 hour days in the hospital lining up. And so she was like, I didn't even think about the war that was happening anywhere else. And then people were focused on the war. And the flu epidemic was also happening. And so yeah, there was just all these things, but for right now, it's like the entire world can be like, we can just al