I struggle with these feelings, too. There are very painful mornings when I don’t want to do anything at all because everything is so insanely hard to do. I guess my issue is the pain. I don’t like to go through all the extra pain of getting up and getting dressed; making myself presentable to get on with the day.

Then, I hear my dear Mom, whispering in my ear once again…”Judith. you don’t have to like it Sweetie, you just have to do it.”

She has been gone many years and her favorite saying that irritated the hell out of me as a teenager, I still sometimes hear to get me up and going.