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The Actions We Take.
Letter from Princess Gaia, as therapist, citizen and mother.
Dear human friend,
I beg you. Before you decide to carry out your next action, please think about the impact your behavior might have. And do so with prudence, careful consideration, and concentration on behalf of the whole.
Last week I worked with a child who suffers from depression and panic attacks since a couple of months now. The ongoing situation due to Corona created a path of occurrences in his family. His parents had to close their restaurant and claim insolvency, his father started drinking alcohol and becoming irascible and his grandmother cries a lot through the telephone, she lives in a home for old people and no one is allowed to visit her. Now, back in school, he cannot cope with breathing under the mask. He cannot tell by looking into the eyes of his teachers if they resonate with his answers to their questions or not. After-school-activities do not take place as usual. He feels left alone.
Yesterday, I went to the bakery store, wearing a mask. A customer without one, turned over to me and asked in a very aggressive tone of voice, if I really believed in this Corona thing, then the woman in the queue behind me intervened with just the same notion and all of a sudden there was a loud hateful madness energy in the bakery which forced me to leave without my…
