Your writing, your thoughts and ideas bring me so much joy and inspiration. I’m only beginning to slowly assess the damage both the covid infection and the pandemic as a whole have done to my physical and mental health and reading your thoughts on mending feel so inspiring to me. Thank you!
SARA!!!! THIS COMMENT! ;-------; Thank you so much I am seriously so touched and happy. It takes a really long time to reckon with covid, honestly. It took me months of being in denial too in the beginning before I finally admitted there was like actually something wrong with me. My partner didn't get long covid, but he got quite a few trickle-down physical side effects like vertigo that really affected him intensely for months at a time. It can do so much and it can really make you feel like you're insane, especially when people brush it off / downplay your experience / got off with a "mild flu" and are "fine". If I can be in any way additional support let me know friend - covid fucking sucks and it feels overwhelming to deal with especially now as "everything's back to normal". I cherish your comment here I seriously want to print it out and stick it to my monitor.
As a bit of a like mini spoiler, I think , since I've been enjoying Substack SO much, I'm going to start a separate Substack project just for posts like these and exploring art, and sketching and nature and mending - I'll let you know when that happens ;) Although it should be soon. I'm a bit nervous to start a new project that's unrelated to Little Fox, but hell, I haven't done anything other than things for Little Fox since 2016 so /why not/.
Thank you Emma! I thankfully don’t really have long covid, but some persistent physical niggles that are more annoying than debilitating and my doctors are just like all you can do is wait. But I think even more than that the mental toll of lockdown and the disillusionment of how selfish people are has gotten to me more than I was willing to admit for a long time. And like you say now everyone’s going “back to normal” like nothing happened and it’s so alienating. We went/are going through a collective trauma but we’re supposed to deal with it on an individual level. But nonetheless I feel like I began my own mending journey. And again, thank you for sharing your experience. It’s so encouraging and uplifting!
And yay sign me up for your new substack project! I love this! And as much passion as we have for our businesses not everything needs to be related!
I super don't you have to have diagnosed long covid to like feel the frustration or impact! Even small "annoyances" disrupt daily life and are difficult to deal with repeatedly, especially when doctors say all you can do is wait. The fact you went to a doctor about it shows it is a meaningful experience and something that is disruptive to day-to-day. I'm glad you're on your own mending journey too!!!
Yeah, I really hate the back to normal. It's especially hard when my friends are saying things to encourage me to "get over covid" and "let it go" like okay? but 300? people? die? a? day? still? And that's supposed to be okay???? It's not okay to me!!!!
+ I will! I hope to get it up and running next week, hopefully. I really definitely wanted a space outside of my business ^.^ And that feels super scary but like, scary is good, I think hehe. Even if it's just mostly a to-myself-mostly journal and a few people who want to come along. I was even thinking if it does get a few people, I might do like weekly or monthly Zoom project-drop in calls where I just force myself to sit down and not push off doing art for "more important" client work, and anyone can bring their projects or hobbies or selves to just like sit and co-art-work or something with me haha! Like those YouTube channels where people go live studying? XD
Your writing, your thoughts and ideas bring me so much joy and inspiration. I’m only beginning to slowly assess the damage both the covid infection and the pandemic as a whole have done to my physical and mental health and reading your thoughts on mending feel so inspiring to me. Thank you!
SARA!!!! THIS COMMENT! ;-------; Thank you so much I am seriously so touched and happy. It takes a really long time to reckon with covid, honestly. It took me months of being in denial too in the beginning before I finally admitted there was like actually something wrong with me. My partner didn't get long covid, but he got quite a few trickle-down physical side effects like vertigo that really affected him intensely for months at a time. It can do so much and it can really make you feel like you're insane, especially when people brush it off / downplay your experience / got off with a "mild flu" and are "fine". If I can be in any way additional support let me know friend - covid fucking sucks and it feels overwhelming to deal with especially now as "everything's back to normal". I cherish your comment here I seriously want to print it out and stick it to my monitor.
As a bit of a like mini spoiler, I think , since I've been enjoying Substack SO much, I'm going to start a separate Substack project just for posts like these and exploring art, and sketching and nature and mending - I'll let you know when that happens ;) Although it should be soon. I'm a bit nervous to start a new project that's unrelated to Little Fox, but hell, I haven't done anything other than things for Little Fox since 2016 so /why not/.
Thank you Emma! I thankfully don’t really have long covid, but some persistent physical niggles that are more annoying than debilitating and my doctors are just like all you can do is wait. But I think even more than that the mental toll of lockdown and the disillusionment of how selfish people are has gotten to me more than I was willing to admit for a long time. And like you say now everyone’s going “back to normal” like nothing happened and it’s so alienating. We went/are going through a collective trauma but we’re supposed to deal with it on an individual level. But nonetheless I feel like I began my own mending journey. And again, thank you for sharing your experience. It’s so encouraging and uplifting!
And yay sign me up for your new substack project! I love this! And as much passion as we have for our businesses not everything needs to be related!
I super don't you have to have diagnosed long covid to like feel the frustration or impact! Even small "annoyances" disrupt daily life and are difficult to deal with repeatedly, especially when doctors say all you can do is wait. The fact you went to a doctor about it shows it is a meaningful experience and something that is disruptive to day-to-day. I'm glad you're on your own mending journey too!!!
Yeah, I really hate the back to normal. It's especially hard when my friends are saying things to encourage me to "get over covid" and "let it go" like okay? but 300? people? die? a? day? still? And that's supposed to be okay???? It's not okay to me!!!!
+ I will! I hope to get it up and running next week, hopefully. I really definitely wanted a space outside of my business ^.^ And that feels super scary but like, scary is good, I think hehe. Even if it's just mostly a to-myself-mostly journal and a few people who want to come along. I was even thinking if it does get a few people, I might do like weekly or monthly Zoom project-drop in calls where I just force myself to sit down and not push off doing art for "more important" client work, and anyone can bring their projects or hobbies or selves to just like sit and co-art-work or something with me haha! Like those YouTube channels where people go live studying? XD
Thank you! And yes definitely, but I’m still aware how lucky I am that it’s just little things and not worse like so many others.
Right?! And it takes so little like wearing a mask to make a difference. But people are refusing to do even that. It’s so frustrating.
Oh that’s such a fun idea! I’d love that!