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• Keep a positive outlook. This means identify and tackle each worry as if it important to exercise your body and
acknowledging your own strength, were a problem to solve. stretch out tense muscles as well as
resourcefulness and abilities. This will Find a quiet place each day where finding time for relaxation. Eat a healthy
help you avoid seeing the pandemic as you can write down your worries and diet and be sure to get enough sleep. By
an insurmountable crisis. If you have fears undisturbed. Periodically, collect taking care of yourself, you will be better
children, it is important for parents or what you’ve written, read through it prepared to deal with situations that
guardians to appear calm and confident, and destroy it as a symbolic way of require resilience.
since children may feel anxious or fearful. acknowledging that you’ve dealt with • Reach out for professional assistance.
• Develop realistic goals and take decisive those worries. If intense anxiety is preventing you
action. This might include ensuring you from performing your job or other
have a supply of food, water, flu-related • Learn from your past. Think back to past daily activities, consider contacting a
medicines; or activities that you and your experiences and sources of personal professional for counselling support.
family can do at home if you become strength that helped you through other
isolated. By keeping yourself busy, your crisis situations. For example, how have The LBMAO Benefit Program offers many
mind will be occupied, having less time to you typically responded to stressful different coverage options to groups of all
dwell on worries and fears. events? Who did you turn to for support? sizes, allowing you to tailor your benefits
• Control stress by managing your worries. How did you overcome the situation? to your employees’ needs. All benefit plans
Intense worrying about what might What did you learn that would be helpful include an Employee Assistance Program
happen or how the situation with ill in this situation? (EAP) serviced by Shepell-fgi and there are
family members might get worse can • Stay connected. The fear of infection and no minimum size requirements necessary
trigger our body’s automatic “fight-flight” the desire to protect yourself and your for coverage under the LBMAO program.
stress response. Over time, this physical family from the flu may mean avoiding For assistance in comparing benefit plans
response to stress takes its toll on our social situations and increased isolation. or to obtain a no-obligation, free quote,
bodies. Consider finding effective ways of However you can still maintain contact please contact Morneau Shepell at 1-866-
managing stress, such as: with people, by phone, letter or email. 307-1403.
• Keep physically fit. During a pandemic, Membership has its privileges!
Quarantine the worry. Create a regular you may not be able to enjoy your usual
half hour each day as “worry time” to level of physical activity. However, it is

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