My Kids Are in School, So Why is My Brain Still Broken?
“Many parents were placed in the position of being the firewall between the panic in the streets and their families, but they had no cover for themselves,” said Colette Brown, a therapist at A Good Place Therapy & Consulting. “We are still living in Covid, reliable information is still elusive, and our brains are still processing so much individual and collective trauma and that is hard to just switch off….We are still chugging away and trying to juggle with precious few emotional resources.”
Both therapists urged parents to ease into the return to “normal.” Brown said, “We may need to take the time now to help ourselves process our experiences over the last 18 months.” Dutchevici added, “It is imperative that we allow ourselves to sit with our feelings, and not judge each other.” It’s all wrapped up in the put-your-oxygen-mask-on-first school of thought. We need to give ourselves the space and the grace to reset and recover. You may even want to ask yourself: “Do I want things to go back to the way they were before?”
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