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There is no life nowadays that would not change completely with the beginning of a full-scale war in Ukraine. But it is not only our behaviour that has changed, but also our emotional reactions. Everything — from fear, anxiety and anger to the feeling of guilt and confusion — manifests itself so violently that sometimes it is difficult to understand how one can actually give pleasure to these emotions. If earlier we had some patterns of how to behave in every situation, how to react, then now all these patterns are broken, and in the head — the daily chaos, we find speeches that would not exist in the civilised world.

Any emotional reaction is a normal response to the abnormal circumstances of war, says psychotherapist Volodymyr Stanchyshyn. We have the right to feel love, we have the right to want to remember, we can vmikati black and white thinking and not feel guilty about it. We can sumuvati, we can cry as much as necessary. This is a book about the emotions of civic people in silence: about those who stayed in Ukraine and those who were forced to leave their homes, all those who volunteer, donate and wait for their relatives from the front, all those who start each day with news and tear themselves away from the reports about the war. We did not choose to live in the time of historical changes, but the war is something that cannot be abstracted from, so our task now is to learn to cope on our own personal level, to live to win the war.