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Across the world, we're all thinking echoing this thought about the courageous, indefatigable, and self-sacrificing actions of all the healthcare workers during... this time. We owe them so much. In these dark days, Churchill's words are thundering through my head. They give me great comfort, and steel my resolve, and make me hopeful about the fate of the United States and the world. When I was writing my short biography "Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill," I spent hours poring over Churchill's greatest speeches and reading his books. For me, recalling his words are an "area of refuge" for my mind. Do you have an area of refuge for your minda subject that comforts and cheers you?

Trying to post more helpful information - articles, memes, inspirations that will help you to live your best life! This is a great article, take it to heart and consider how it might apply to you. I know I found some "habits" of my own I can change.

It occurred to Pooh and Piglet that they hadn't heard from Eeyore for several days, so they put on their hats and coats and trotted across the Hundred Acre Wood... to Eeyore's stick house. Inside the house was Eeyore. "Hello Eeyore," said Pooh. "Hello Pooh. Hello Piglet," said Eeyore, in a Glum Sounding Voice. "We just thought we'd check in on you," said Piglet, "because we hadn't heard from you, and so we wanted to know if you were okay." Eeyore was silent for a moment. "Am I okay?" he asked, eventually. "Well, I don't know, to be honest. Are any of us really okay? That's what I ask myself. All I can tell you, Pooh and Piglet, is that right now I feel really rather Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. Which is why I haven't bothered you. Because you wouldn't want to waste your time hanging out with someone who is Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All, would you now." Pooh looked at Piglet, and Piglet looked at Pooh, and they both sat down, one on either side of Eeyore in his stick house. Eeyore looked at them in surprise. "What are you doing?" "We're sitting here with you," said Pooh, "because we are your friends. And true friends don't care if someone is feeling Sad, or Alone, or Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. True friends are there for you anyway. And so here we are." "Oh," said Eeyore. "Oh." And the three of them sat there in silence, and while Pooh and Piglet said nothing at all; somehow, almost imperceptibly, Eeyore started to feel a very tiny little bit better. Because Pooh and Piglet were There. No more; no less. (A.A. Milne, E.H. Shepard) This is National Suicide Prevention Week. #mentalhealth #Friends #Friendship

I tell my clients this all the time - one day these qualities will be great strengths, we, as parents, just have to help nurture the qualities in the right direction.