Survivor
Hi Friends,
I won't take up too many lines tonight as I don't have much to report...I will tell you that I gave mom a new mantra in an attempt to steer her energies from being angry about the accident to moving forward toward the future...it is "I am a survivor." She really took that to heart, and wrote it down several times to hang up so she can see it everyday and remember. Though we have all had these last 6 months to work through our anger and so many other feelings about this, she has had a relatively short time to process her own feelings as she has so recently been able to do so productively. Even so, I sometimes fear that she will become so bogged down in it that she won't be able to see past it and move on, and I have recently been making supreme efforts to redirect her anger in a positive direction...thus the "survivor" mantra. Ha, in all my infinite wisdom, right? Who knows how I am to handle all this? I'm learning as I go, I suppose, and I only hope that I'm doing right by her in every way I can.
Hope everyone had a good weekend...the time change always throws everyone off a bit, but we'll all acclimate soon enough, and anything with "Spring" in the name (Spring ahead) is always good! Thanks for your continued love and support. Peace to all.
I won't take up too many lines tonight as I don't have much to report...I will tell you that I gave mom a new mantra in an attempt to steer her energies from being angry about the accident to moving forward toward the future...it is "I am a survivor." She really took that to heart, and wrote it down several times to hang up so she can see it everyday and remember. Though we have all had these last 6 months to work through our anger and so many other feelings about this, she has had a relatively short time to process her own feelings as she has so recently been able to do so productively. Even so, I sometimes fear that she will become so bogged down in it that she won't be able to see past it and move on, and I have recently been making supreme efforts to redirect her anger in a positive direction...thus the "survivor" mantra. Ha, in all my infinite wisdom, right? Who knows how I am to handle all this? I'm learning as I go, I suppose, and I only hope that I'm doing right by her in every way I can.
Hope everyone had a good weekend...the time change always throws everyone off a bit, but we'll all acclimate soon enough, and anything with "Spring" in the name (Spring ahead) is always good! Thanks for your continued love and support. Peace to all.
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