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In case anyone is interested I made a feed of any post that shares an academic journal article

Anyways thanks for reading if you got this far. Just some random morning thoughts before I start the day.

It also makes me think about how our privileged Western societies are still stuck in the gravitational pull of the trauma that is the pandemic. And we have to find a way to break free. But I'm also hopeful that we will break free, because there is another way of being. We just have to get there.

For me that's important, because I feel like I'm slowly but surely having the ability to look forward, and fight for the future, instead of being tugged to the past. And there are a lot of fights to fight. I'm finally breaking free into interstellar space.

But as I was walking home after dropping the kids off at school, looking at the leaves falling to the ground, the sidewalk still shimmering from an overnight shower, it felt like my current stresses and anxiousness ('cause face it the world is still fucked up) were no longer from the pandemic.

It also forced me to seek mental health support which allowed me to question toxic behaviours I had instinctively placed value in. But 4 yrs on, and a year after the WHO declared an end to the health emerg, I was still reeling. (And to be totally clear, COVID still is here, so get vaxed and mask up)

The pandemic fucked me up in all kinds of ways, exacerbating a lot of my issues and traumas that I had successfully repressed for decades. I became more insular, quick to anger, my anxiety and depression (which I didn't even realize I had) shot through the roof. Wasn't a great partner. I was afraid.

Oops spoke too soon. Looks like they posted it on F1TV!