Trump is gone. Biden was inaugurated. So why don’t I feel better?

by Amber | Jan 20, 2021

This morning, as I watched the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, I kept waiting for the anxiety of the last four years to dissipate. This anxiety was only amplified during the last year because of the pandemic and then multiplied on January 6. I wanted to feel relief, happiness and hope, and while I did, to a point, the anxiety and grief I’ve been carrying were all still very present, with a new sense of… unsettled weirdness.

But, that’s what the residual emotion of trauma feels like.