To folks in wellness & spiritual communities, please stop telling people you don& #39;t know "you are not alone" during this. It& #39;s patronizing AF. You don& #39;t know what people are going through during this isolation, & your well-intended but oblivious words are just salting open wounds.

My mother who has been on oxygen and housebound for years is alone - staying in touch by email, yes, but still alone. People who are single, disabled, retired, not living with family, or forced to isolate far from home don& #39;t need platitudes about how we& #39;re all interconnected.

We can talk about the oneness of the universe all we want, the interconnection of all life, whatever great spiritual "truth" we care to spout, but it is small comfort when it& #39;s just a cookie-cutter sound bite made to a mass audience in the name of "inspiration." Get real.

It takes more courage, more spirit, more nerve, more heart to sit with others in their pain and fear over the tenuous connection of the phone or Internet, and not try to come up with a solution for what they are feeling, just because their reality makes others uncomfortable.

But it& #39;s what is needed. More than anything, those who are being hurt, neglected, ignored and sacrificed during this time need to be seen, heard, and acknowledged, right where they are, not where we might want them to be.

If we& #39;re not willing to give them that much, if all we have for them is Pollyanna bullshit masquerading as healing, then the world that we claim to be working toward is a myth. Our spirituality is a lie, if it can& #39;t bear the proximity of "low vibrations" and painful experiences.