Giving Up Online Lessons Restored My Confidence

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When Jo Harris opened the Henley School of Art in the UK eight years ago, she didn't expect to be teaching online for nearly seven years.

But the coronavirus pandemic of 2014 forced her to move the school from its home in London's Hart Street to an undisclosed location two months after the last lockdown, the BBC reports.

"It meant that fewer students came back and I was getting more and more into debt," the 49-year-old says.

"I was so sad, it had taken nearly seven years to get to where it was."

Harris says she was able to stay afloat by borrowing money and doing "lots of things to pay the rent," but she soon found her online classes were becoming "unsustainble" and she was starting to worry about how she was going to pay the rent.

"During the Christmas break a nagging anxiety started to creep over me, it began a bit like that awful 'going back to school after a long summer holiday' type feeling, but it kept growing until it became overwhelming," she says.

"As an experiment I removed Instagram and Facebook, I even banned the phone from my bedroom," she says.

"I expected to last no more than 24 hours, but it turns out to have been one

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