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Our community is paramount

Yes there are doctors, counselors, psychiatrist, psychologist, nurses, medical assistants, physical therapists et al...it's all good, sort of, but at the end of the day, what you need is your community.  You need your family and friends and neighbors to step in and step up. Since moving all over the world has become possible and our careers have taken us to all corners of the world, our family unit, our community unit is hard to find and with that comes the social isolation, the real illness of our society. If we want real health and healing...whole minds, bodies, souls...we need first to build on people's skills and talents within the community and  for the community .  Healing requires connection and relationship and makes room for creative engaged thoughtful minds that advance society. The REAL work and impact takes place with the people in our lives, our community, our neighbors, our friends. What I mean is that there is a barrier between the professional and the patient or

Thich Nhat Hanh

This one gets a spot on its blog post. "Breathing in I bring calm presence of mind, breathing out I smile this beautiful moment." - Viet philosopher and monk,  Thich Nhat Hanh (10/11/1926-1/22/22)

The transition from covid isolationism - late file

I spent the last 10 days moving cautiously around the house, mostly in my son’s bedroom to prevent my husband and son from getting Covid-19. The good and bad of it is I know exactly how I got a good dose of the virus - one day before my sister started showing symptoms she was loudly discussing her political view points from the driver’s seat as I cautiously found points I could agree with before mindfully trying to pull her from the edge of what I in part feel like is the cliff that falls into a worm hole of several conspiracies - not all without merit - but regardless of the topic - she was loud and spewed a fair amount of viral particles into an enclosed space and I took it having thrown some caution to the wind or at least made some subconscious choice that this moment or that one my child was having from the back seat several feet away with his beloved cousins was worth it and I didn’t really know because well they don’t believe in masking and how deadly covid could be was not enou