Whatever type of support you’re looking for, it’s crucial to feel safe. Inspiring mantras, such as “Nothing ever leaves us until it teaches us what we need to know,” as well as journal prompts like “I need to forgive myself for …” are shared. For instance, on IG, The Sad Girls Club provides people of color a safe space to candidly discuss mental health concerns.

You can also find support on YouTube live, Instagram, and pretty much any social media outlet. If you’d like to find Twitch shows similar to Church of the Infinite You and The One Who Got Away, tap on the Discover icon and search under categories like Talk Shows and Podcasts or Just Chatting. Left unaddressed, grief can morph into depression, anxiety, or post-traumatic stress disorder, which makes finding a supportive community essential for our well-being. Covid-19 hasn’t just taken the lives of nearly 1 million people worldwide it’s also resulted in missed career opportunities and derailed our sense of security. “We’re all facing loss,” says Abigail Levinson Marks, a psychologist in San Francisco who specializes in grief. The show helped ease Blank’s loneliness and also illuminated how online spaces like YouTube Live, IGTV, and Twitch can be more than virtual distractions-they can be sources of legitimate human connection.įrom crumbling relationships and job loss to death, illness, and increased overall stress, the pandemic has triggered what feels like an avalanche of suffering. “I was isolated in my apartment and I wanted to find an intentional, hopeful community,” Blank says. Oliver Blank, an artist in Oakland, California, discovered Grae’s show during quarantine. “If I can remind someone to keep pursuing a dream, to get toxic people out of their life, or to embrace who they are, I’m happy,” Grae explains. During her Twitch show Church of the Infinite You, rapper Jean Grae delivers sermons that could uplift pretty much anyone, regardless of their religious or spiritual beliefs.

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