Ep 259: 10 Questions for the Anniversary of a Big Event

10 Things To Tell You

Laura Tremaine

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.7 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This month marks 5 years still the Covid-19 pandemic turned our lives upside down. In this episode, I'm sharing 10 questions that can be used as journal prompts or conversation starters on the anniversary of any big event. I'm focusing my answers to these prompts on the five-year mark of the pandemic, but each question is crafted to be universal for any big event in your past. JOIN ME ON SUBSTACK for a JOURNAL PARTY on this topic with the members of Secret Stuff I'll also be posting all of the prompts on social media and in the show notes Follow me on IG @laura.tremaine FULL SHOW NOTES HERE RELATED EPISODES: 10 Questions for Starting Over 10 Questions To Ask Yourself in the Middle of Anything SUBSCRIBE to 10 Things To Tell You so you never miss an episode! CLICK HERE for episode show notes FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Instagram FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Facebook SIGN UP for episode emails, links, and show notes JOIN Laura Tremaine’s SECRET SUBSTACK BUY THE BOOK: Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. by Laura Tremaine BUY THE BOOK: The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs by Laura Tremaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.4	Welcome to the 10 Things to Tell You podcast. I'm Laura Tremaine. I always have at least 10 things to tell you. And you have 10 things to tell. This is a show where we believe that sharing yourself will make you less lonely.
1:20.3	It is March 2025, which means it is five years exactly since the whole world changed. And as much as I love to mark a moment, some anniversaries are hard.
1:29.0	Some anniversaries we wish would just come and go without any acknowledgement, let alone any fanfare.
1:36.4	This can be true for any kind of hard anniversary, anything that you're looking back on that feels tender.
1:39.2	But of course, I am also thinking about the fact that we are five years out from the beginning
1:48.3	of the COVID-19 pandemic that turned our lives upside down and changed so many things about
1:59.3	our world, our kids schooling, our jobs maybe, certainly our elections,
2:06.2	and everything that followed. It's a really pivotal moment in history. And I feel like the
2:14.9	five-year mark is a good time to look back and do a little journaling about it.
2:24.4	I know that March feels a little unsteady for this very reason.
2:31.8	Maybe the body keeps the score.
2:34.1	Maybe it's the posts and memes that sort of
2:37.0	pop up in these few weeks of March every single year for the last four years, I guess,
2:45.0	noting this anniversary. And maybe it's just how the world feels right now in general,
2:51.4	but I really felt like I wanted to sit down and do a little processing of the pandemic.
2:58.4	I'm a journalist by nature.
3:00.1	We have talked on this show about this particular anniversary in the past,
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