Acknowledging each other’s pandemic life changes

How do we process the very real and concrete changes of the last 18 months when they seemed to happen only virtually?

Trauma research shows that human beings will survive, and get on with, a difficult experience when in the thick of it, it’s afterwards that the effects can be felt.

As the pandemic started I had just given birth, become a mother.

As the restrictions eased last summer, my daughter had just started solids and we held her in our arms at sunset on the Cliffs of Moher. She was six months old.