Wanted to share this post from the amazing Toni Bernhard, author of the Turning Straw Into Gold column at Psychology Today and author of the brilliant How to Be Sick. If you are chronically ill, or love someone who is, please read her work. She’s amazing, as evidenced here:
Just wow. As Lora can certainly tell you, I continue to struggle with all three of these, and as usual, Toni absolutely nails the discussion of every single one of them. When I have these feelings, I try to acknowledge and accept them, then let them go, and focus on what I have today, versus what I have lost. The support and love of family, friends, and the RA/AI/chronically ill community helps tremendously as well.
I hope the wisdom in Toni’s post helps you know you’re not alone, and her writings guide you toward finding your own inner peace.
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Thank you so much for sharing this. There are things that we wish were more globally understood. And of course there are those things that we need to understand ourselves, including acceptance.