Feb 6, 2022 Courage in Covid

This reflection is one of the most gut wrenching I have written. But I tend to seek out discomfort with curiosity. I love to sit with people in their discomfort and I promise if you sit with me through this, I’ll sit with you in yours. That is at the heart of compassion.

I don’t pretend to have super powers and I don’t believe that I am exempt from feeling the woes of this pandemic. There are so many things I miss about being in community. One of my friends was texting with me and he said I miss bar hopping. My response was yeah that’s so 2019.

But the science is this: Connection is fundamental for our health and mental health. And when all of this happened in march of 2020, it was taken away from us and we had to learn new ways of being, new ways of coping, and new ways of connecting.