Looking for joy? Check-in with your social media community.

Desmond U.Patton,PHD
2 min readSep 3, 2021

I’ve been incredibly stressed out with planning the beginning of a new academic year, in the midst of the unrelenting Delta variant, hurricanes, ending wars, and all the above. I decided to check in with my Twitter network to see how they’re managing stress and creating joy. Here’s what I learned:

Connect with your pets or get one

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Desmond U.Patton,PHD

Public Interest Technologist, Associate Professor at Columbia School of Social Work and Director of the SAFElab at Columbia University.