by Sarah Stuteville
There’s nothing like a crisis to make you reexamine “normal.” Suddenly, mundane daily realities you’ve long taken for granted—playgrounds, paychecks, crowded restaurants, chattering classrooms—feel like luxuries of a distant past. And it’s easy to long for a magic switch that could take us back to a time of familiar problems and the deep grooves of routine. It’s hard to consider this rolling nightmare of a pandemic as an opportunity, but the emerging therapist in me is compelled to try. Or maybe even go a step further and suggest that this terrible present could usher in a better future. Continue reading OPINION/ Normal is Broken: And Maybe it Should Stay That Way