I don't know her name, nor she mine, but whenever we see each other with our kids, we smile and nod. And every week this stranger takes a moment out of her day to do for us so we don't have to. I think about that a lot.

How does anyone move forward in any one direction? How do you fight your freeze response? How do you prioritize where to spend/save money, where you may thrive/disaster may strike? How do you feel any sense of control? I feel like I've been in a state of disassociation for the past year