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Amy G.

Mm-hmm.

Here we are in the middle of week six of working from home with no end in sight. How are you keeping it together? You know, this week feels

okay. I feel like a little bit like I am accepting this as a new reality which doesn't feel great.

But I feel like a lot of the really raw emotional response I was having has sort of evened out which is nice.

And I also have been noticing that the emotional containment that I normally have to do when I'm going through something hard and the people around me aren't isn't there.

I'm allowed to have my emotions a little bit more on the surface right now because we're all going through a hard time and

that means I have to do less managing, less hiding of my sadness or my anger or my frustration or my despair, which feels like a relief in a way.

Like, you know, when someone asked me how are you doing, it's perfectly acceptable right now

I think for me to say, I'm having a really bad day.

Totally.

But the other thing is I find sometimes when people I'm close to,

either at work or my friends and family,

that when they're suffering, when they're feeling rotten,

I feel rotten. There's a contagion to it.

For sure.

And I mean, you need to maintain some distance to be a good friend, a good sister, a good spouse.

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