The Stockholm Syndrome of Sheltering in Place

jen murphy parker
15 min readMay 20, 2020

“LET’S GOOOOOOOOOO!!!!”

It’s the summer of 2019 and this sudden yelling rips me out of sleep at 2:11am.

It takes me a minute of sweaty panic to get my bearings and realize there isn’t an actual emergency, the kind I’ve had a decade-long career waking up to with my younger son. The kind that sends fright to your toes and sends your heart exploding out of a…

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jen murphy parker

Jen Murphy Parker is a San Francisco-based writer exploring what exists in the middle - of parenting, of health, of life.