Surviving COVID-19 lockdown of 2020, each of us had our own coping mechanisms. It seems that now, in 2024, we are experiencing collective amnesia. The title of this book, Watching While Waiting: Surviving the Pandemic through Creativity and Reflective Practice, issues an invitation to you, the reader, to take a moment, breathe deeply and reflect back upon our collective experience in order to discover and appreciate the lessons we learned.