Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life

I'm your host Cori Mascara and in today's episode we're going to talk about reframing the pandemic

More to come on that in a moment first let's settle in together with the sound of the bells

Okay, so at the time of recording this it is almost June 2021

We are a bit over a year into this global pandemic and things are starting to open up

I'm here in the state so I'm most familiar with what's happening here

So I can't speak to other parts of the world as as much, but there is a sense of

things

Transitioning back to a certain kind of normal that we were familiar with before

although I don't

Think it will ever go back to a normal nor are we actually looking for that there's a certain evolution that happened

That is going to condition what this new normal is going to look like

But with all of that said there is a lot of reflecting back on the last year and a lot of narrative around it being

You know the worst year of our lives a terrible year and

For a very good reason that narrative is there there's been a tremendous amount of pain and suffering and loss and grief

Across the board and there have been some people who have had it easier

Maybe even enjoyable

But overall this has been extremely hard experience

So putting it in a category as the worst year is understandable and

Not even something that I necessarily think we need to push back on if something's bad. It's okay to name it as bad

And I also think it's okay for us to reflect

with a positive orientation

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