I've Been Through 9/11, 2008, and the Pandemic. This Feels Different.

I've been doing this for 24 years.

I started my first day of clinic on September 11th, 2001. I made it through the end of the dot-com bust. The housing crash in 2008. I had two kids 13 months apart (that stress was personal, not global). The pandemic. Riots. All of it.

This week feels different.

I don't know how else to say it. It feels deeper. Spiritual. Subconscious. Almost like a universal subconscious shift that everyone's picking up on whether they realize it or not.

And I don't like it.

What's Different This Time

Previous crises had boundaries. Economic collapse. Health crisis. Political chaos. They were massive, but they were contained within specific domains.

This one feels like all of them at once, plus something underneath that nobody's talking about openly.

It's not just fear. It's the sense that the ground itself is unstable. That the rules we thought governed reality don't apply anymore. That the institutions we relied on—even if we didn't trust them—are either bre...

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