Hope Walz

And so I think there was like the surprise and then it was also like the, okay, so now what do we do?

And then also like now, how is this going to affect literally everybody in the country?

Yeah, my dad copes with things by just like and maybe this isn't the most healthy thing, but he's like, OK, what's next?

So he was like, OK, time to get back to Minnesota and I'm going to do the work I can do to make Minnesota better and to protect Minnesota.

And obviously that's really hard right now in this moment.

But like, yeah.

His initial thought was like, let's get back to work.

And I think that's kind of where my mind went to.

Um, so like within a week I was back in Montana.

I work at a nonprofit.

I do overnights at the homeless shelter.

So I was back at work.

Um,

You know, kind of trying to get back into everyday life.

But then I also started posting on social media around then and was kind of using that as an outlet.

And then I talked about this on some other stuff.

I started going to therapy in the past year.

And so just like that sort of stuff.

But I found like staying engaged and staying involved has helped me feel better and move forward and find hope.

Yeah, I think probably it feels, I mean, I thought it was going to go back to how it felt.