Jed Diamond

What the Coronavirus Pandemic Can Teach Us About Life, Love, and Memoir

The Coronavirus pandemic is the only event in our lifetime that has impacted every person alive in the world today. For most of us, it has turned our lives upside down and put strain on our physical, emotional, and relational health. It has caused us to rethink our priorities and to question who we are and what’s important in our lives. Though we long to return to normal, we suspect that something significant has changed and our lives may never be the same again.

For writers, we feel called upon to write. One of the ways I got through the pandemic was to write regular articles including:

• Dare to Know: Practical Tools for Maintaining Meaning, Hope, and Joy in the Face of Collapse.
• Writers Who Save Lives: Healing Men, Women, and Children Survive and Thrive in the Post-Covid-World.
• Father Earth and the New Partnership Revolution: Healing Relationships in the Post Coronavirus World.

In this upbeat, engaging, and healing program, I will talk about what we can learn as we reflect on our experiences in our personal and professional world since Covid entered our lives. I’ll share my own healing journey, what happened when my grandson was diagnosed with Covid, and how I used writing as a healing practice.

We will also talk about how we can use our experiences to explore the creative journey of memoir and what ideas we might explore for turning our experiences into the next book on life, love, and memoir.

What Writers Will Gain

• A writer’s perspective on how the pandemic has impacted our personal and professional lives.
• An understanding of trauma and how its effects continue years after the event.
• Knowledge about the different ways men and women have been impacted by Covid.
• How the many months moving through the stages of Covid can be a source of creative inspiration for memoir writers.
• As we come through the crisis and begin to heal from the trauma, we have an opportunity to heal ourselves and help others, through creative writing.
• Making sense of the past year can help us create a healthy foundation for moving into the future.