This is a difficult time—and just as our ancestors have experienced famine, war and disease, and other traumas, this is our ordeal that we are experiencing together.

I don't talk much about coronavirus. There's so much chat and speculation—what I know is that people and families are struggling, to say the least.

Just as in every classic hero's journey, in mythology, and films and stories, this is our ordeal. Our road of trials.

And, just like in our film and movies and stories, our lives also take an arc, they have chapters, and themes that run through our life.

These themes, ordeals and challenges—they can be hard. This is part of the human experience. It comes with being a human.

But it is these ordeals and challenges that expand us into a better version of ourselves, that help us evolve into a better species—it changes our biology…