Coping with Emergencies, Again

My two most recent blog posts have been about preparing for emergencies and coping with stress. Not too long after uploading my entry about coping with stress, I came across a comic on the National Public Radio (NPR) website about coping with emergencies. It combines information about emergency preparedness and coping strategies that my earlier posts covered. What serendipity! It’s almost as if the producers at NPR were reading my mind.

And no wonder, for as I noted in my “Coping Strategies Revisited” post, “Reports about stress abound.” The comic was published as part of NPR’s Life Kit podcast and newsletter, which means it’s offered in both visual/textual and audio forms. What a great supplement to my two posts, which are primarily textual.

Images-Fonts-Sounds-Music (Mu/Nicholas H. Tollervey)

So, without further ado, I offer here a link to the comic “Don’t Panic! 6 Strategies to Keep You Calm in a Crisis” as featured on NPR’s Life Kit. If you enjoy visuals, you can look at the comic, and if you prefer listening to stories, you can click play on the podcast. In case NPR has been de-funded by the time you’re reading this and its website is no longer active, here’s a link to the comic on the Wayback Machine.