From the NewsHour: “5 questions about mental health during the pandemic answered by an expert.”

From NPR: “How to get your thinking brain back online” 

From the New Yorker: “The History of Loneliness”  

A dialogue about loneliness between Brené Brown and former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy: “Loneliness and Connection”

Everything from Brené Brown.

Now more than ever, John O’Donohue. 

Meditation:

Dr. James Maskalyk’s guided meditations (generally, the meditations in these videos start about 20 minutes in – if you hover over the progress slider in the video, look for when he brings the timer out and/or closes his eyes; the first 20 minutes or so are updates from the ER in Toronto)

Guided meditations from the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation.

Dan Siegel’s “Wheel of Awareness” meditation.

Guided mediations by Jack Kornfeld. 

Guided meditation by Sharon Salzberg.