Lauren Smith 
The Four Per Cent [EPUB ebook] 
Locked down but left out during Melbourne’s Covid response

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‘Throw it all at me. Take everything you can. Even in the end I will not be defeated.’

How much would you give up to never return to your darkest moment?

Your livelihood?

Your house?

Your business?

Your friends?

Your self-worth?

Melbourne’s record-breaking 262-day-lockdown should have been a collective experience shared by residents of the city. However, Government directives in those final months forced friends and families against one another in a debate over who was worthy of freedom.

Four per cent of that population have a story to tell – one that has never been heard.

This is the story of Melbourne’s lockdown, told from the inside by someone left on the outside.

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Contents

Author’s note iii

Preface 1

About me 5

The importance of writing 8

Your turn 13

A commitment to yourself 15

Why write about Covid? 17

Your turn 19

Think about what you wrote 21

Why put this into a book? 22

The importance of shifting pain from our bodies 25

Using this book 27

Part 1: The Covid pandemic lockdown in Melbourne 29

The significant dates 30

Questions to ponder 34

Lockdown 34

Reopening 40

A quick summary 44

Ongoing restrictions 44

Part 2: My story 47

Living with Trigeminal neuralgia 47

Your turn 63

When Covid hit 65

Mandates 67

Unpopular decision 69

Reopening 71

2022 letter from neurologist 75

Still no exemption 78

Facing the reality 78

Hospitalisation 79

Thailand 82

After everything … 88

Your turn 89

My Melbourne – then and now 91

Your turn 95

Part 3: The lessons 97

Your turn 101

How did we get here? 103

Your turn 106

How we speak matters 108

Lesson 1: Validation 110

Your turn 116

Lesson 2: Connection 118

Your turn 124

Lesson 3: Fear 126

Your turn 129

Lesson 4: Reality versus truth – our need to be right 131

Your turn 135

Lesson 5: Having an opinion 137

Your turn 141

Lesson 6: The mass contradiction 143

Your turn 146

Lesson 7: Guilt as motivation 148

Your turn 152

Lesson 8: Better leadership 154

Your turn 158

Lesson 9: Where did the stress on the hospital system

come from? 160

Your turn 166

Lesson 10: Staying well 168

Your turn 171

Lesson 11: Less entitlement, more love 173

Your turn 175

Lesson 12: What to trust 177

Your turn 180

Lesson 13: Everyone has a different experience of this time 182

Your turn 185

Part 4: Where to from here? 187

Your turn 195

What else might you start questioning? 197

How to move forward 202

Your turn 206

And my point is … 208

Your turn 213

Final words 215

Acknowledgments 217

Where to go for more information 221

Endnotes 223

About the author 228

Yazar hakkında

Lauren Smith is a mindfulness coach, and a Pilates and yoga instructor who first made a career in Melbourne’s television industry. She left the fast-paced lifestyle behind when diagnosed with an incurable cranial nerve disorder. Since then, Lauren has survived brain surgery, rehabbed herself from a spinal injury, and lived through Melbourne’s Covid lockdown. Her experiences have led her to advocate for balancing physical and mental wellbeing by learning to tune into your own body. Lauren now teaches others to rest and recover as much as they push the edges of their comfort zone, and to choose language that helps them communicate and process their feelings effectively with themselves and others. These days, you will find Lauren on the beaches and in the Muay Thai studios of Thailand; or travelling to the next exotic destination, eager to meet the locals and expats and listen to their stories.

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