They say the only way forward is to accept and move on. Accept things will get better and try to look for small moments of joy in everyday life. However, keeping calm and carrying on isn’t for everyone—for many, the more than a year on milestone is a time of intense processing, grieving, losing hours of sleep as we fail to shut down from blurred work-life boundaries, high anxiety and constant exposure to news.
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Life as we know it has changed forever. Anyone else getting flashbacks of what life used to be like? Truth be told, I get overwhelmed with the constant stream of messages on social media to “power through” and “come back stronger” and the constant feed of memes and pictures of fancy home gym and office set-ups. Maybe the “brave new world” isn’t what some of us are ready for right now, and the discomfort we’re feeling is touch starvation, attachment issues, relationship conflicts, lack of purpose, anxiety…and sheer grief.
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