If you’re feeling blah as we come out of the pandemic, the name of this feeling, according to Adam Grant of the New York Times, is “languishing.” “Languishing is a sense of stagnation and emptiness” he writes. “It feels as if you’re muddling through your days, looking at your life through a foggy windshield.” One of my psychotherapy clients put it this way: “I don’t think I’ll ever be somebody’s muse again. I don’t have that kind of creative energy, that life force. I feel flat.”

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