Post Traumatic Growth: Reflections on Two Years of Pandemic

Today is the second anniversary of California's Stay at Home Order. Reflecting on that time of deep uncertainty, relative isolation, and fear I cannot help but appreciate our collective resilience. Mid March 2020, someone suggested that we may need to practice social distancing for two months. I remember thinking in absolute horror and some dramatic flair, "TWO MONTHS?!" As an extrovert, social butterfly, and busy bee, I legitimately did not know how I would survive. Well, here I am, two years later, my life still altered to some degree by the pandemic but miraculously and gratefully alive.

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