Some thoughts that came to me today about the growing Coronavirus crisis.
Based on what I’ve learned about trauma and the body, not only as a professional in the field, but also from personal experience, I believe that the world is experiencing a physical/medical manifestation of overwhelming emotional trauma… on a global scale.
As Dr. Bessel van der Kolk says, “The body keeps the score.”
Humanity can no longer bear the pain of collective generational trauma, so we have become feverish and sick as a species.
This virus is forcing us all to slow down and just stop.
So we can pay attention.
Let’s use this time to rest.
Reflect.
Set our priorities according to our deepest values.
And love each other, deeply.
The kind of love that heals and mends things.
Deep, real connection, with compassion.
Reach out to your family members, friends, those who are sick or weak or just emotionally weary, those for whom a day of lost work means a week without food or shelter.
Take time to take stock of what’s really important.
And then adjust accordingly.
An excerpt from the poem
“what they did yesterday afternoon”
by Warsan Shire…
later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?
it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.
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