Elizabeth Gilbert·TED Connects It's OK to feel overwhelmed. Here's what to do next

Elizabeth Gilbert·TED Connects
It’s OK to feel overwhelmed. Here’s what to do next
Summary
The speaker is an author of 'Eat, Pray, Love’ which is a really famous book in the world. The same as before, she talks a lot and speaks too fast so she has the unique ways of articulating what others can’t articulate.
In fact, the world should use her skills right now because it’s overwhelmed by a coronavirus spreading. Chris Anderson said in the story that there were mad, mad, mad, mad, mad days but we couldn’t go outside, we couldn’t see each other, so there are days of isolation for many people and it brings with a lot of difficult emotions.

However, Elizabeth Gilbert tells us that if you’re feeling anxious or fearful during the coronavirus pandemic, you’re not alone. You can trust in the strength of the human spirit and resilience, so we try not to overcome something forcedly when we are in anxious. The important things are that it’s a really warm, loving dose of compassion and mercy towards yourself 1) and human thought is paradox thus we can imagine something even worse. 2)

We have used our skills that are curiosity, passion, and creativity for our future, though, it’s time to let go of the future and just focus on the moment. To manage those emotions well, we have to isolate a little bit from the news. Our self-isolation is not our social distancing. Walking through a path of deep grief is not that the grieving journey is over or grief never comes again. Just people can do what is the next thing they need to do.

The speaker tries to stay away from the news so she doesn't have to be in her anger, to draw pictures like ten year child, and to write about “Love ” that is not romantic love. It’s the infinite, bottomlessly merciful source of all human compassion. calmed down and she is going to take the next intuitive right action the best that she can.

Words in this story
articulate /ar·tic·u·late/ showing the ability to speak fluently and coherently
enlightened / give (someone) greater knowledge and understanding about a subject or situation
antidote / medicine that works against the effects of poison
grieve /verb/   grief /noun/     anxious /adj/   anxiety /noun/