Dear Friends,
I know it has been a difficult time for many of you and so I just wanted to say to you, “Please don’t lose heart.” If you are breathing, you are healing. Behind the clouds, the sun is shining. Even when it doesn’t feel like it, healing is taking place. This will continue until you make it to the finishing line…. to the other side.
In the meantime, keep going. Do all you can to cope and take care of yourself and don’t believe those catastrophic ‘what if…?’ thoughts. Tell yourself you will make the choice to not believe anything that you do not want to become a reality. When you feel your worst is when you must dig deep down for the strength and courage within you to persevere. Fall down 7 times, get up 8. Fall down 8 times, get up 9. It is okay to lie and rest for a while if you are exhausted when you fall, but you must trust that everything you need in order to carry on will either come to you or is already within you. If you are overwhelmed, ask for help if you need it, and get support from someone who cares. Then you get back up and keep going.
Believe in your body’s resilience, innate intelligence, and ability to heal, and then you grit your teeth and hold on tight.
Remember that one day this will be a closed chapter and a new, better and brighter chapter will begin. Your story has a happy ending. You are not alone and you can and will make it.
Sending you much compassion,
