
Knowing Who's Knocking
“I feel Despair…” As the words came out of my mouth I was thankful to have a name for the all too familiar feeling. I’ve only had a name for what had felt like a life long companion for about a year. I learned its name when I was listening to a Brené Brown podcast and she explained that with Despair comes a loss of appetite. At that time I was somewhere along the four month journey of my mother being in ICU, isolated from us because of COVID-19 protocols. It was four months o