Dr Kristopher Lovell

Dear body and brain,

During quarantine I didn’t take care of you much in the beginning. I wasn’t really doing well and felt like I was going insane the first month of being home all day. What I did to not feel so isolated and scared was I would FaceTime my friends every night and talk to them, I got a therapist and I decided it was a good thing for me to be able to get everything out. I also started journaling and make Tiktoks for fun. It was the only way I was able to keep my mind occupied on things. I didn’t exercise starting quarantine, but by June I decided to do at home workouts. I did push myself and I did end up relapsing with my eating disorder. I decided to go seek professional help and try to get healthy the correct way. Now through quarantine I talk to my therapist, I go see my nutritionist, I train with my personal trainer, I try to make meal time fun instead of dreading it, I watch movies, I work on school work, I am trying to get in the habit of praying, I have been into skin care recently too. I have been really into going back into the outdoors recently. I really want to go hiking and or horse back riding in an open field. That’s what I have been thinking about to make me calm down. Another really big thing that I have been doing to keep myself occupied is to prepare bday presents that I am gonna give to friends and family. It has been exciting to plan that and really cheers me up throughout the day thinking of what I am gonna do for their bday even if it is at a social distancing. It has been rough but I think I bounced back fairly quickly then most.