Another Virus Headline—and the Grief We Never Finished After COVID

A recent virus headline made my body react before my brain had fully caught up.Not because I thought I was in immediate danger.Because some things don’t register as information. They register as memory.In this episode of Soft Endings, I’m talking about unresolved collective trauma, COVID grief, nervous system memory, and what happens when something changes us collectively—but we’re expected to process it mostly alone.This isn’t a public health episode.It’s a grief episode.About disrupted rituals. Fractured trust. Isolation. Survival mode. The pressure to “move on.” And the strange feeling of realizing your body may still be carrying something the world never really made space to process.If you’ve ever had a “not again” reaction to a headline, this one’s for you. Get full access to Soft Endings at lettn2mec.substack.com/subscribe