Volunteering as a docent in a California state park taught me to stop resisting the knowledge that someday my vulnerable child would have to live without me.
More than a quarter of U.S. adults say they feel overwhelmed by stress. Here are a few ways to create positivity and tame the beast of chronic stress.I sat on a log watching the seal’s chest rise and fall like the waves. He was too big to move, and I couldn’t control the tide that was going out, leaving him increasingly stranded as time stretched on.
After nine years of this, I agreed I wouldn’t try to dictate his treatment as much, and that I wouldn’t force him into the hospital anymore. I moved five hours north, leaving him with his girlfriend, and lived for two years by this land so rugged and wild with beauty. At times the extraordinary natural splendor felt almost too much to bear.
Was this ever going to feel like the kind of existence I could accept, an experience I might be able to spin into gold from the dense threads of suffering I’ve witnessed? Was this what it took to find compassion?Mental health conversations are stuck on flawed notions of ‘awareness.’
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