Forgive yourself for setting grandiose expectations during quarantine and let yourself mourn the time alone if you need to slowly peel yourself out of the cocoon you had to build to survive this past year. Let any ideas of how any of this was “supposed to be” simply fade away, because there was no rule book for 2020. And there is no rule book for how to come out of it, only human beings with basic needs.

What’s next and how has your isolation informed this prediction, expectation, or perspective?

Healing is personal and interpersonal, happening individually and collectively (often simultaneously).