I love the line 'If we can breathe and step back far enough there is always light' - and then your description of the natural world all around. This really captures the ongoing process and adjustment for me - the loss due to long covid and the gift of discovering that there is a balm right here and now in the natural world that I never fully appreciated before 💛
Thank you Emma. This has also been one of the most powerful things I have learned through my experience with long covid grief, and it has given me a deep appreciation of the beauty that is there, and spaciousness to hold the dark alongside this wonderful light.
Sometimes, particularly on the rainiest of days, we have to step back a long way!
I think this makes me a better psychologist- I'm not just talking from a place of theory, I've definitely been walking the walk!
Great minds think alike - funnily enough I am just drafting a post on the aftermath of the Covid years too, which I'll put out later in March. Anniversaries always bring those reflections to the surface for me. It's something I've been reflecting on a lot - specifically what we've done with all our Covid-related trauma? I'm sorry to hear you've been journeying with long Covid Jo, that really adds a whole other layer. Appreciate reading your thoughts on this (and I also loved that book by Irvin Yalom 😊)
I didn't expect this to be the post that it turned out to be, it started as something else sparked by my recollection of Yalom's book, which I may come back to.
The covid narrative seems now to be of a need to 'move on' though I feel for myself there is still processing and assimilation going on- But appreciate perhaps its because LC has meant Covid is still in my present, and other people don't have the same experience? It's hard to know and I look forward to reading your post and seeing any comments you also receive.
I find myself wondering if we are all 'moving on' without really having processed what happened at all.... like our grandparents generation tried to do after the war. Their trauma lives on though, and I suspect ours will too in lots of subtle and insidious ways....
And the impact on the children who missed out on so much social interaction and play, bombarded with the scary messages of the world not being safe, and being close to people being unsafe.
I've seen articles about the intergenerational trauma from war veterans who didn't talk about their experiences, but not read so much about the children growing up in wartime. I know there will be huge differences in context, and for covid trauma perhaps, is that many children were cut off from friendships and play and networks of support, many protective factors? There must be researchers looking into this???
Yes absolutely. This generation of kids grew up with a lot of fear around them. I'm curious too about research, haven't come across any so far, but will do a bit of a search before I finish writing my piece
I love the line 'If we can breathe and step back far enough there is always light' - and then your description of the natural world all around. This really captures the ongoing process and adjustment for me - the loss due to long covid and the gift of discovering that there is a balm right here and now in the natural world that I never fully appreciated before 💛
Thank you Emma. This has also been one of the most powerful things I have learned through my experience with long covid grief, and it has given me a deep appreciation of the beauty that is there, and spaciousness to hold the dark alongside this wonderful light.
Sometimes, particularly on the rainiest of days, we have to step back a long way!
I think this makes me a better psychologist- I'm not just talking from a place of theory, I've definitely been walking the walk!
Great minds think alike - funnily enough I am just drafting a post on the aftermath of the Covid years too, which I'll put out later in March. Anniversaries always bring those reflections to the surface for me. It's something I've been reflecting on a lot - specifically what we've done with all our Covid-related trauma? I'm sorry to hear you've been journeying with long Covid Jo, that really adds a whole other layer. Appreciate reading your thoughts on this (and I also loved that book by Irvin Yalom 😊)
Thank you for your comment Vicki.
I didn't expect this to be the post that it turned out to be, it started as something else sparked by my recollection of Yalom's book, which I may come back to.
The covid narrative seems now to be of a need to 'move on' though I feel for myself there is still processing and assimilation going on- But appreciate perhaps its because LC has meant Covid is still in my present, and other people don't have the same experience? It's hard to know and I look forward to reading your post and seeing any comments you also receive.
I find myself wondering if we are all 'moving on' without really having processed what happened at all.... like our grandparents generation tried to do after the war. Their trauma lives on though, and I suspect ours will too in lots of subtle and insidious ways....
That's an interesting reflection.
And the impact on the children who missed out on so much social interaction and play, bombarded with the scary messages of the world not being safe, and being close to people being unsafe.
I've seen articles about the intergenerational trauma from war veterans who didn't talk about their experiences, but not read so much about the children growing up in wartime. I know there will be huge differences in context, and for covid trauma perhaps, is that many children were cut off from friendships and play and networks of support, many protective factors? There must be researchers looking into this???
Yes absolutely. This generation of kids grew up with a lot of fear around them. I'm curious too about research, haven't come across any so far, but will do a bit of a search before I finish writing my piece