pain?How many times do we deny ourselves the emotional and mental space to properly grieve because we compare our sadness to someone else’s to then deem it unworthy?We need to stop playing the pain comparison game.Exactly one year ago, all of our collective realities were starting to sink in.
Pandemic lockdowns across the country had started. The 24-hour news cycles provided minute-by-minute updates on the devastation around the globe.
The previously amorphous reality began to take shape, but the more in-focus the present became, the blurrier my understanding became of how to deal with it.Daily actions become routines, routines become comforts, comforts become stability—so what happens when all of that is taken away?
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