THE SANITY KIT

Carefully selected links to help you stay sane during these difficult times.

HUMOUR
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22 Reasons Why Parents Shouldn't Text

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ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS
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Activities and online resources for kids at home.

Schools worldwide have closed in response to COVID-19, leaving parents and caregivers scrambling to find daily activities for their children that are educational, creative and entertaining. If you're facing this challenge for the first time, there are many online resources that you can turn to during this uncertain period of self-isolation, social distancing and quarantine.

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MINDFULNESS
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Live Guided Meditations - Ten Percent Happier

Every weekday, we'll offer a free live sanity break, featuring our host, Dan Harris, and some of the world's best meditation teachers, streaming from their homes to yours. We'll start with a five minute meditation, and then take questions from the audience.Streaming live on YouTube at 3PM ET every weekday. If you miss it live, you can catch past episodes below or on the Ten Percent Happier app.

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HOPE
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The Good News Network: Positive Stories 24/7

Take a break from all the bad news and come here for a hit of hope in these difficult times.

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IMMUNE BOOSTING

The Secrets to Creating a Healthy Immune System

The DOCTOR'S FARMACY show. A great conversation on all things immunity and wellness between Dr. Mark Hyman and Dr. Leonard Calabrese.

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FITNESS

The Body Coach TV

Welcome to the Body Coach TV: weekly HIIT workouts to help you burn fat and get fitter, stronger, healthier and lean. You don't need a gym to get...

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Yoga With Adriene

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INSPIRED ACTION
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Anonymous Love Letters Lift the Spirits of Anyone Signed Up On This Website

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Coping Calendar

This Coping Calendar has 30 suggested actions to look after ourselves and each other as we face this global crisis together. Download it as an image for sharing or a PDF for printing. Pass on to others and help spread the word.

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PERSPECTIVE
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Pandemic Math - A Video To Help Ease Your Nerves

Thank Goodness for Dave Asprey. If you've ever heard of "Bulletproof Coffee"- he's the guy who created that. He's an author to countless books, including "The Bulletproof Diet" and "Super Human." Now this video is part 3 of a 3-part video series about the Coronavirus that he called "Pandemic Math." In the video, he demonstrated how people react to mortality estimates when a pandemic is involved. He broke it into 4 sections: population, the "magic number", the total number of people infected who self-report, and actual deaths from the virus.

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CONNECTION

Stay connected: 4 steps for throwing your digital party

Just like with an ordinary dinner party, it takes a bit of organisation to pull off a group hang online via video chat, but the rewards are worth the effort.

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NEW LEARNING
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450 free Ivy League university courses you can take online

The eight Ivy League schools are among the most prestigious colleges in the world. They include Brown, Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, and Columbia universities, and the University of Pennsylvania.These Ivy League schools are highly selective and extremely hard to get into. But the good news is that all these universities now offer free online courses across multiple online course platforms.

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Google Arts & Culture

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MEDITATION

Guided Meditation: Boost Your Immune System (Self-Heal All Disease) - Marisa Peer

​"Everything can be taken from us but one thing:
the freedom to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances"
~ Viktor Frankl
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