Unmasking COVID-19

Join Marymount Manhattan’s free Webinar for the knowledge and strategies needed to boldly Unmask COVID-19.

Speaker One: Diana Nash 

Diana Nash will explore what lies behind the pandemic masks we now must wear, how we harbor feelings of anxiety and depression while grieving our losses of identity, lifestyle and expectations. Together we will explore new ways of coping and discuss the many bridges we must cross in restructuring our lives.

Diana Nash is a licensed mental health counselor devoted to clients with grief and loss issues and an adjunct professor of death and bereavement at Marymount Manhattan College. As a grief expert, Diana Nash published in The Christian Science Monitor, has been interviewed by CBS News, and has presented at Moscow State University in Russia, after the 9/11/2001 tragedy.

Speaker Two: Martha Eddy 

Dr. Eddy will explore the benefits of somatic movement during grief and loss. The body holds sadness from loss of freedom or lack of choice in one’s daily life as well as from other sources of loss. Dr. Eddy will share how to express those feelings in a manner that honors them and allows you to have access to your full range of emotions.

Dr. Eddy is a Marymount Manhattan Ferraro Fellow and the award-winning founder of Moving for Life, a dance-exercise program designed for older adults and people of all ages diagnosed with cancer. This work deals with bodily aspects of physical stress and trauma. As a registered somatic movement therapist, she coaches individuals using her own system, which she developed in 1990 after her mother died from cancer.