Maintaining contact, flexible support, extraordinary times
Well I didn’t think we’d ever experience anything like we are now. Terrifying for many and especially for those of us with underlying health conditions, or those of us with caring responsibilities for older friends and family members. That’s most of us here at Cohort 4. Additionally, there are many in our group who experience acute anxiety and panic over health issues anyway, so this situation is very unhelpful all round. We cannot continue with our usual timetable of social gatherings, so what are we doing instead? As a peer support and peer mentoring group connection is what we do best. We’ve thought of ways around this to maintain the comfort of sisterly connection with each other. The first new…