Earlier this year I mentioned I turned off the news in 2008/09 and never looked back. I was living in a state of fight or flight back then and had been for awhile. I’d say, on a whole I spent at least 3 years living there. Yesterday I mentioned trauma + genetic susceptibility could trigger an autoimmune disease....I’m certain my years somewhere btwn ‘06-‘10 is when my celiacs got triggered. This morning I read a news article ....there is no escaping it (the news) theses days...even my favorite TikTok accounts make fun of things in the daily news. The article talked specifically about parents (but it could really be anyone) becoming numb, as a way of coping to this new life of fight or flight that 2020 has brought with it. They’ve been in fight or flight long enough, asked to pivot daily, that this is the new way of coping. Sometimes (often) it includes drugs/ alcohol. The article talked about how some of this numbing could actually be helpful (minus drugs and alcohol) but it’s a...