So many of you are feeling like you can't or don't know how you are going to get through this. Saying to yourself often or to someone, "I don't know how much longer I can do this or I can't do this that much longer." Too many things are changing and I can't keep up. I am crying so much and can't keep myself together. This is so painful to go through and for someone to watch you go through it. Many people who are near you don't know how to deal with you at this stage. I totally understand that you feel this way. We are changing and we are growing at a rapid speed. We are losing things so quickly. We are losing our old selves. I speak of this loss of the old self. I speak of it so you will understand certain feelings that you might have. The most important things to help you are strategies and to redirect your mind to something that can help you. Taking in good foods, staying hydrated. We must work with the mind. I felt so poorly but was told I need to stay as positive and grateful as possible. I needed to help my body to calm down because what we feel our body feels. You will need strategies to get through this. You need to do these strategies consistently. We must participate in our healing journey. We must do certain things. None of this is going to just go away without doing something constructive. This isn't the type of thing well I tried that today and it didn't work. It isn't like that. This is a building process. All of the things we do eventually add up to greater outcomes. All of the little steps add up to bigger steps over time. I have mentioned PATIENCE so often. In order to get through this we have to have it. We have to CREATE IT in ourselves. So many of you don't even know the meaning of REST OR HOW TO STOP. We are trained from so young to just keep doing, keep moving. If we didn't keep moving we were labeled lazy or you won't amount to anything. Through this illness I learned that rest is so important so now when I see people that have to move constantly I feel for them. I now have worth even without doing. I get you that the symptoms are brutal. We don't even want to feel them for 1 minute never mind days/months. We have to hold on! Do you hear me!!! Let's get through this. Everything that I tell you to do I did and it wasn't a straight line -healing isn't. It's all a process.

I love you guys and I get you, every word.. So much love being sent your way. Petra