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Is it ok to feel angry?
Venting. Here it comes again, the anger. It arrives in slow waves. Anger at my mother for not being more proactive about her life choices. Anger at dementia. Anger and frustration at the medical system. Anger that I’m losing sleep and exhausted all the time & above all, angry that I lost my job and the life I built due to her disease and slow decline.
And then I get angry at the deep guilt I experience because I feel angry!
I try to take deep breath and be in the moment. It’s a game of constantly reframing how I see this. I keep repeating to myself the word “acceptance”.
How do you cope if you experience these difficult emotions?
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Van Morrison
It's non attachment non attachment non attachment now I'm in the here and now, meditating. Still I'm suffer'n, well that's my problem. Enlightenment ? Don't know what it is.
BEE GEES
Then I fell out of bed hitting my head on things that I said.
@gratia I love it!
There's a man at a restaurant we frequent who drinks his wine out of a coffee cup, so no one knows his drinking wine.
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3 ReactionsHi dibamos
Yeats got it before Cohen. We are on this site 'cause our bubbles have burst, and we are struggling with reality - or is it?
@trishaanderson A friend told me her father (90’s and sharp as a tack), carries a can of Ensure full of wine when they go out to eat! lol.
@georgescraftjr
I'll bring some junk food to our slumber party (pity party?).
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I love that song, especially when Barbra Streisand sings it; what range!