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@susandc

I think we can make ourselves sicker by suppressing emotions like grief, anger, sadness, but to feel them fully, gain their messages, and then release them gracefully may be a lifelong learning. I try to do my gratitude journal every day. Even on the worst of chemo days, it helps me balance the crappiness and fear of the unknown with all the many things that are going right. If we have a human body it is a given that we will get sick, grow old (hopefully) and eventually die. What value can we create in the meantime?

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@susandc

I appreciate your sharing your thoughts about suppressing emotions. You have shared a great philosophy for life when you say, " If we have a human body it is a given that we will get sick, grow old (hopefully) and eventually die. What value can we create in the meantime?"

This way of thinking will take us beyond the "why me" thinking and will lead us to say, "what now."