Our healing journey. Our health journey, it's all encompassing into a complete package. It's not just about one thing or one quick fix. If we have a problem, it all starts from top to bottom. It starts with our mindset. It starts with how we're treating ourselves, how we talk to ourselves, and that can make such a difference that, and it's such a small thing that people don't even realize how our thoughts can affect us.

And having the whole picture and maybe it's a team that we need involved. You have people in your life to help fill in these gaps, to carry on with your journey. This hasn't been a journey of, rainbows and Candy and unicorns. The Empress title can apply to everybody. And I think from what I've learned in my journey, that's what I want to share in the world so that everyone dealing with something , to feel like the Empress in their life and to have the strength and tenacity to stand up for themselves. We're here to live our life and life throws all kinds of challenges at us. So it's up to us to. Be our own advocate and stand up for ourselves. , that's why I fired up was the perfect theme for me to just keep going. To find that resiliency. And I have to tell you, I wasn't in this spot, for the first 20 years of dealing with MS. I was on the roulette wheel of, just , going to the doctor, asking questions that I thought.

Might help me and then I would just get shot down and then you just leave and you're just disappointed, because we're always looking for the next thing to help us.

I actually call it navigating because every day is a new day and we have to see the illness as a separate entity. Otherwise, it just becomes part of us. And I think if we see it separately, then we can deal with it better. Somebody says something terrible to you. You don't have to keep that inside.

You can. Dismiss that. That's part of navigating it is not keeping it internal. Cause every day is full of choices. Each day is a reset and we have a whole day of 24 hours full of choices. So if we're feeling and thinking that we feel awful and we're angry at our body because it doesn't work like it used to, we're just setting ourselves up for.

A bad day and maybe more symptoms because we're now stressing ourselves out. We have to keep moving forward. The past is the past. And if we're living in the past, then we're just moving backwards, or standing still, you just have to keep taking the steps forward for yourself, for your family, on your journey.

We have to be careful though, because it's how we define the warrior, is it the warrior in the battle? Or is it the warrior that's just standing up and taking these steps day by day? Because if we feel like we're in fight and battle mode, then we're back to stressing our adrenals out. And being in survival mode.

So it is a fine line of the warriors. I think terminology, and I do see the word fight a lot, and I just would like to delete that word because it goes back to stressing our body out.

I think navigation is good. It's a good blanket word. And when we're talking about fighting, immediately our brain is thinking, Oh, now we're in fight mode. So it's time to ramp everything up, get into survival mode we don't have to be in a fight mode. We can just live our life, navigate it, as it comes. Thank you. My website is heartsofwellness. com. .

I think the thread to go away with is just everybody needs to give themselves grace. We're way too hard on ourselves. We see people doing something we want to do. And even if we're aspiring to do it and working towards doing that, maybe that's going to take some extra steps. It's not going to happen overnight.

And trying new things, that change might not be felt until 90 days later. So I think it all goes back to just being patient with ourselves and giving ourselves grace.

Be kind to somebody, do something random for a stranger. Because you might be the only person that Talks to them nicely that day. We just need to be kinder to each other.