Frontline Workers Process A Year Of Trauma Through Writing
The Things They Carry Project works to help frontline workers understand and work through the trauma they experienced during the pandemic.
Maryland psychotherapist Kerry Malawista noticed something over her last year of practice: frontline health care workers who were struggling with what she called “the ghosts of the COVID deaths they carry.”
And if she was seeing them, she assumed there were others too. That realization was the genesis of The Things They Carry Project, a series of writing workshops for health care workers and first responders.
Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks to Malawista and Maine emergency physician Michael Schmitz about the program.
3-M Mask
An excerpt from writing by workshop participant Michael Schmitz
Green
Thick with microfilaments
Cupping my nose and mouth
