This checkin to GC86M6V Grove Farm reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Checked in on this cache during my permitted one exercise walk a day. All is well.
Day: 29 March 2020
That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief
This is a repost promoting content originally published elsewhere. See more things Dan's reposted.
…
There is something powerful about naming this as grief. It helps us feel what’s inside of us. So many have told me in the past week, “I’m telling my coworkers I’m having a hard time,” or “I cried last night.” When you name it, you feel it and it moves through you. Emotions need motion. It’s important we acknowledge what we go through.
…
Scott makes a good point; the experience of the coronavirus crisis and lockdowns is distinctly grief-like. Insofar as the Kübler-Ross model is applicable in general, it’s a good predictor of individuals’ reactions to their temporary “new normal”. But the lesson to take from this article, I think, isn’t about understanding the feelings and behaviour of your fellow humans but, as the author says, in giving a name to your own.
The realisation that what you’re experiencing is grief and that it’s okay to need an indefinite amount of time to process that is empowering and reassuring.