Expression Authenticity
Each feeling is never in isolation and never has a neat start and end. This relates to Dr Paul Ekman’s ideas about the universal, biological lineage of our core emotions. Our emotions are deep-rooted and relational, which has been hard in the separation of lockdown and when confronted with different perspectives around personal responsibility. Each of us, and society as a whole, is enduring and adapting. I have come through several stages and can emerge somewhat from the isolation of troubling internal thoughts, but those issues still remain. I am alert to concerns still relevant to our situation, as emotional beings within a global emergency, we are not out of the pandemic yet.