I wrote this piece back in June of this year. At the time I was working at a care home. Covid-19 caused pain, death and grief like I had never witnessed before. This is how I coped. (This piece was published in Like the Wind Magazine, issue #25)

This post marks the start of a journey of coming to terms with my own privilege and beginning of a long-term strategy to affect change. I acknowledge that I will make mistakes along the way, but I want to be open and honest from the off.

Life as we know it has been thrown into the blender, is being spun around a good deal, and it just keeps on getting faster. How we cope with the new normal will be different for each of us, but a challenge we all share is how to maintain positivity [...]