The Long Toll of Covid Isolation (Part II)
Find out the survey results & learn about what researchers call “emotional contagion.”
Find out the survey results & learn about what researchers call “emotional contagion.”
It’s disheartening to observe that the majority of people I know seem to be in a worse state of mental well-being than they were before Covid. Some are the same, and only a handful seem better.
What I find over and over again is the struggle behind the curtain easily gets forgotten while watching the performance. We see the expert execution on the stage, not the rehearsals and rewrites.
I sometimes dream of returning to Pecos: both the place and the state of mind.
It takes courage to say this isn’t it, this isn’t who I want to be, or how I want to be seen. It takes courage to say there must be a better way to thrive in this world and to seek it, choosing the unknown over the comfortable. In order …