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Sharing our stories helps us to understand our experiences and begin to move forward in our lives. One year after the devastating COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed the world's healthcare system, the Things They Carry Project was launched, offering free online writing workshops (co-led by a therapist and writer) for frontline workers. TTC workshops offered our nation's nurses, doctors, and other frontline workers a safe space to write about all they endured–from exhaustion to terror to hopelessness–and a supportive group to hear their stories. Writing groups connected these brave workers, and now we, too, can listen to their voices. This collection offers a selection of the powerful and moving stories shared by the group participants, giving us all the chance to witness and empathize with their experience and its aftermath.
i The Things They Carry Project is a national community project in which dozens of volunteer writers and therapists lead writing groups for frontline health care workers to tell their stories and find hope together. ROOM is honored to publish The Things They Wrote, a collection of their essays and poems. The book is available for free in ROOM's online community project alcove or preorder a print copy.
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