When Laura Khoudari, a personal trainer and former competitive weightlifter, experienced a traumatic incident, she went back to the gym and trained as hard as possible, often twice a day.
"When I was living with trauma, I was using [training] as a coping skill but in a non-healthy way. I was training all the time like I was preparing for battle because I wanted to be invincible against an invisible threat," Khoudari says.
The intense training led to injury, and she started researching how to use weight lifting to help heal trauma instead of avoid it, which she writes about in her book, Lifting Heavy Things: Healing Trauma One Rep at a Time.
The key is how you approach weight training, she says -- uniting your mind and body in the reps, rather than trying to zone out.
People with limited English skills have long had trouble understanding health information in the U.S. Add a global pandemic with rapidly-changing public health recommendations to the mix, and you have a recipe for confusion and misunderstanding.
Often those at highest risk -- immigrant communities, older adults, and others who have cognitive challenges -- are the ones least likely to understand what they need to do to protect themselves.
Enter Pooja Chandrashekar, who as a first year student at Harvard Medical School recruited more than 175 multilingual health profession students from around the country to start the COVID-19 Health Literacy Project. It aims to create clear, understandable information about the virus in more than 40 languages.
If you’re a parent, you worry. And this year, there’s been a lot to worry about. But when it comes to COVID-19 and young children, it turns out their risk of getting seriously ill is extremely low.
For children, the risk of serious consequences from COVID-19 is the same magnitude as the risk they face from serious illness from the flu, experts say, although parents seem more worried about COVID, especially since the latest federal guidelines allow more adults to go maskless.
While the risks are not zero, "If you stop going into stores because you're terrified you'll run into an unmasked person, that's probably overreacting," says Gretchen Chapman, a psychology professor who studies health conundrums like this at Carnegie Mellon University.
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