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Little joys can help home become a sanctuary
BY REBECCA LEFTWICH becky@newnan.com
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ore than 20 years ago, Cheryl Mendelson showed some uncanny insight into how many of us would come to view our homes as we cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. “Being at home feels safe; you have a sense of relief whenever you come and close the door behind you, re-
duced fear of social and emotional dangers as well as of physical ones,” Mendelson wrote in Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House. “When you are home, you can let down your guard and take off your mask.” Ok, so her mask was figurative and not of the Centers for Disease Control-recommended protective
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variety. But a year of uncertainty has forced many of us to convert our dwellings into everything from business hubs and schools to places of worship and social centers. And it has become more important than ever for home to be the kind of sanctuary described by Mendelson in her 1999 housekeeping tome – a safe space, an
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oasis. Many mental health professionals have shown increasing concern over a looming mental health crisis that may prove to be more far-reaching than COVID-19. In a study released last October by the International Committee of the SANCTUARY . 2
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