Lockdown to 'Love-down': Learning to love yourself again during COVID-19

In the Spring of 2019, I remember preparing to orally defend my dissertation. I was nervous, exhausted, and motivated at the same time. I kept reminding myself how I was the expert in the room and that no one else knew about this subject matter like I did because I was the one who spent the last six years of my life doing this research. I never knew that exactly one year later I would be feeling the same way - nervous, exhausted and yet motivated, but this time for a different reason - COVID-19.