Psychologies

Words that heal

LAST YEAR, I PACKED UP MY London flat to move back to my home town. My anxiety was at an all-time high. Boxing up my belongings without friends or family to help me is not something I would want to do at the best of times but, in those early days of the pandemic, when it felt like the end of the world, my stress levels were rocketing.

When numerous well-meaning friends and acquaintances took it upon themselves to call and inform me that London was going into full military lockdown and I would be trapped in the capitalby Emily Dickinson:

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