Resetting Our Future Long Haul COVID: A Survivor’s Guide Transform Your Pain and Find Your Way Forward by Joseph J. Trunzo, Julie Luongo

 Resetting Our Future

Long Haul COVID: A Survivor’s Guide Transform Your Pain and Find Your Way Forward by Joseph J. Trunzo, Julie Luongo is maybe one of the first self-help books directly involving COVID-19. The publishing house of this book is Changemakers Books: once started the pandemic they decided of giving voice to the problematic appeared because of the Covid-19. Considering that we will still have to cope with COVID and what it means a pandemic for a while, these books can be useful for trying to find some relief.The website of the publishing house is www.resiliencebooks.com.

Mahatma Gandhi said once that the future its up to us and what we do today. For sure we have much more responsibilities in terms of life and death than what we had these past years. A vaccine can protect people and entire communities, reducing the mortality, hospitalization and possibility of infecting other people. The pandemic brought on the table of the existence thematic of great immensity. We discovered that our eco-system re-started to breath, oh yes, also pretty largely, when we were all closed home. Animals re-occupied their places in the past were dominated by us: at the same time the climate changes assumed a different importance, because this one can be just the beginning of a series of pandemics brought by the mutation of meteorological conditions and what it is going on in the North and South Pole.

Sure, as Americans love to saying: We're All in This Together. But... what doest it mean? That there is not a person in this world who hasn't been altered by COVID. A pandemic involves every sphere of the human condition: social, economical, psychological, physical, familial. There is not an untouched sphere in this extraordinary condition that won't touch men.

No one would want to suffer: this is true; but not seeing what it is going on could be worse. The method proposed by the authors for our case (we are all sick from COVID, also if we haven't been yet infected and maybe we won't be, because we don't live anymore with tranquillity but with stress levels pretty high) is called ACT and was firstly studied for other illnesses like the Lyme Syndrome caused by a bite of a tick. While dosctors are still debating if this illness exists or not, patients cope with a lot of pains at various levels: physical, psychological.

This method, so, has been adopted also for refreshing the body and spirit of people affected by COVID-19.

"ACT is grounded in an extremely well-researched model called Relational Frame Theory, which focuses on how our minds form relations and use symbols and language to make

connections in our mental processes." This method will help you to live in the present, bettering the quality of your thoughts for staying more tranquil and relaxed.

It is a good reading. I warmly suggest it to you.