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A lot of the conversations I’ve been having lately seem to be circling around the same two feelings: despair and hopelessness. The hits keep on coming. Trauma is piled onto trauma with no room for healing. So many of us are going to therapy but therapists are human and have limitations and in the face of <all this> it’s like slapping Band-Aids over bullet holes. There is no end in sight to this pandemic and yes, history tells us pandemics always end one way or another but that way may involve killing as many people as possible and it may also take over a decade.