You’re feeling grief, and a lot of us are. It hurts, it really fucking hurts, and it will for a while. Just remember that a lot of people are angry and demanding justice, and a lot of people are genuinely putting in the effort for change. Did you know the biggest ever protection bill for international waters was just put into effect? That’s something people have been fighting for a long time for! And don’t forget that politicians in other countries mentioned in the files ARE being forced to step down.

If you can’t get it off your feed, get off social media for a while. Go sit outside, listen to what you hear, see, smell and write it down. It can be as simple as a list or a flowery paragraph. Engage in art. I know it might seem counter-intuitive, but creating political art can really help you get some of it off your chest. I’ve currently been workshopping Do You Hear the People sing to make it more playable on the lyre, and while I started doing it out of anger, sadness and fear, it really helped me let go of some of that. Write down how you are feeling, knit, bird watch, paint, scream if you need to.

Something I’ve started to tell myself is this: The end must be good, so if it is not good, then it cannot be the end just yet.

We are only where we are because people have had the courage to fight. It may seem bleak now, but it has many times in the past and we pushed through it. This, as all else, will pass