Women's Health Australia

editor’s letter

thoughts on OPTIMISM

o, 2021 hasn’t exactly turned out like many of us expected. The plans that we cautiously made at the beginning of the year, fuelled by the hope that we had entered our new post-2020 normal, were smashed by a certain mutation contributor (and casualty of the TBD wedding) Lindsay Geller writes in “Flash Forward” (page 108): “Even if you’ve only got miniscule amounts of positivity left, it’s worth the investment [as it] makes you feel happier and less stressed”, according to psychologists.

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