You know, there used to be this kind of clear divide between you had your disaster survivors

And then you had the people trying to help them in different aspects of their needs now

I think for the past year we're all survivors. We are all responders and helpers and so a lot of our focus is not just

How do you help other people but also just maintaining resilience? You know keeping yourself going

This is Sarah and Beth, your listening to Pant suit politics, the home of Grace filled political conversations

Hello and thank you so much for joining us for this episode of Pant suit politics. We are continuing this week to think about the impacts of living with COVID-19 for a year and we're excited because Dr. Carla Vermulin joins us in the event of COVID-19

We're continuing this week to talk about the impacts of living with COVID-19 for a year and we're excited because Dr. Carla Vermulin joins us today to talk about the mental health impacts

Both of living through the pandemic and transitioning out of it as we start to think about what that process could look like in the coming months

We have loved being featured in Apple Podcast Spotlight program for the past month and we're so grateful to the team at Apple Podcast

We're so grateful to be able to talk about to Lita for being so kind and patient and gracious to work with

If you're new to Pant suit politics, we hope that you'll pull up a chair at our big virtual table as we sit down to think about the news and our responsibilities as citizens twice a week

And if you are loving it here, we have two announcements about how you might get more involved

Okay, so we're going to have a Instagram live on March 25th at 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time

It's sponsored by our friends at Caliper and we're going to have a live happy hour that will function as an Ask Us Anything

We have some questions of yours from the last Ask Us Anything on the show that we haven't discussed yet

And then you'll be able to pop up and ask us questions within the event, Elise will be there to help us keep the conversation flowing

And we really can't wait to see so many of you there, it's going to be really fun

And then of course we'd love for you to join our Extra Credit Book Club

Here's Susan, one of our listeners and members to tell you all about it

As an avid reader and pantsuit politics listener, I jumped at the chance to join the book club when it started last year and so far I love it

Every box contains at least one book that I never would have picked myself but ends up being a five star read for me

The books cover a huge range of topics, water management, founding of our government, overwork, even a book of poetry with a poem about my beloved Amtrak and it

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