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“The value of this book lies … in who the people are whose stories the book tells and, even more than who they are, what they are in the face of COVID-19 and what they were able to do, indeed needed to do, to help everyone around them get through one of the toughest times in anyone’s memory. The personal stories … thoroughly humanize the bland statistics so often used to describe the widespread depredations of COVID-19. The many first-person stories in the book are moving, and some are eye-opening.

Drawing on his own experiences and a number of self-care programs for people confronting trauma, author Bob Delaney gives various recommendations for coping strategies - all of them food for thought and all having the potential to help readers better cope with trauma in their own lives while becoming more appreciative of the enormous sacrifices that healthcare workers have been making (since the global pandemic broke out in 2019-20).

The book enviably shows just how much healthcare workers have gone through, how much they still go through, what the effects of the pandemic are on them and on those they care for, and what every reader can do to develop a greater level of resiliency.” - Infodad Blog