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The Anxiety Toolkit: Jason Mraz and road trips
I’ve been struggling with a lot of anxiety the past week or so. I think it was triggered by the assault on the capitol, and then was amplified by the exponential rise in cases, which were clearly pointing to new lockdowns. I don’t actually mind the lockdowns that much once they’ve been announced. I work remotely, my child is pretty easy most of the time, and we have tons of outdoor space. Lockdowns aren’t a big thing for us. But it’s just the stress of watching the numbers go up, and wondering what’s going to happen. Same thing with the inauguration. I am feeling a lot of stress wondering what…
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How to keep your sanity in this new normal…
Well, here we are on day 45,623 of quarantine. And the novelty of it all is wearing off. Here in Spain I’m spending a lot of time doing Instacart orders for my parents, figuring out homeschooling, and wondering when I’m ever going to be able to fly home again. In my last post I talked about the grief we feel that our normal has flown out the window. And so quickly. With so little warning for most of us. It just came up and smacked us upside the head, and here we are, boom, stuck at home watching the economy collapse as we eat banana bread in our six-day-old leggings…
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The trauma of losing our normal
From the looks of my social media feeds, it appears that the world is in some kind of collective grief right now, specifically the first stage: denial. There is so much talk of “getting back to normal.” People are comfort-eating away the quarantine, just waiting for normal life to resume. I don’t think we’ve fully grasped yet that there is no getting back to normal. Normal doesn’t exist anymore. Having spent the past decade in various stages of trauma, and different stages of moving through it, I feel like I’m watching all my friends pass through this place. And for once, I’m kind of a step ahead. I think anyone…
