The Healing Power of Writing during Coronavirus Pandemic

Applying the Healing Power of Writing to Coronavirus Confinement

Even if you didn’t get COVID-19, you need to heal

I live in Italy. We have been confined at home for two months now.

Families and individuals are getting used to stay at home. If you are familiar with how lively and active Milano was just two months ago, this short movie on the New Yorker should leave you wondering whether we will ever go back to “normal”.

I’m wondering the same actually. It has been two months now, and life gets stressing and sometimes disturbing.

Writing for telling our stories and possibly helping others avoiding the same mistakes is keeping reality in the right perspective.

The initial posts, which I wrote when Italy was at the forefront of this challenge, aimed at warning friends and professional contacts around the world to be ready to what was coming. Because I knew it was, and it was going to hit hard.

Then, the next round of posts have been more reflexive, and helped me thinking about what was actually happening and why: wondering about crisis management, criminality, business and innovation, and the meaning of the data we are fed by the media every day.

Now, I live by the day, I move by the hour from remote working, meetings and teaching, to home schooling, and housekeeping.

But at the end of the day, the recovery moment for me is when everyone is asleep and I sit down, writing the next chapter of my story.

If you want to know about how we are living the Coronavirus emergency in Italy, you can read my previous diary entries on my personal Medium profile.

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