Restart: Designing a Healthy Post-Pandemic Life
Doreen Dodgen-Magee, "Restart: Designing a Healthy Post-Pandemic Life"
English | ISBN: 1538160277 | 2021 | 208 pages | AZW3 | 358 KB
English | ISBN: 1538160277 | 2021 | 208 pages | AZW3 | 358 KB
Restart prepares readers to do the hard work of reentering an in-person post-pandemic world by examining the relationships we have formed with ourselves, our devices, and others in quarantine.
Social anxiety and a tendency to avoid any awkwardness in embodied spaces were on the rise before the pandemic. Matters are far worse now that we have spent more than a year overly reliant upon our technology, incapable of safely spending time socially and relationally with others. All the while, research indicates that the kind of resilience and grit that in-person interactions involve are crucial for life satisfaction and success. This means that the social isolation from which we are emerging will have profound and lasting effects on us unless we actively work to re-integrate communal living healthily.
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