This week Kevin asks, "If crying weren't so embarrassing would you cry more often? Are there tears in there you can't even get to?" To grieve we need to share what we've lost. What have you lost to the Pandemic this year? Is your body carrying a grief you may not know about? Do you feel the same way physically, emotionally, mentally now as you did before March 2020? It is important to stop and take a self assessment.

One way the body manages multiple traumatic events is to go into a psychic shock. As we all begin to emerge from the pandemic the melting of that shock may cause an increase in anxiety, sadness, and tears that come from nowhere. If we go back to just being busy without assessing the changes we've been through we threaten to prolong the psychic shock. One way to ease the transition is to honor your grief and your changing feelings and reach out to people to share them. Niseema shares her experience of joining a group called, "a grief circle" and related how this structured sharing of her experiences during the pandemic and after helped her to find her creative voice again.