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Dear Valerie

I'm so sorry you have all this on your plate. I wouldn't worry too much about the stress, though. I'm a very optimistic non-stressy person, eating the right diet and I breast-fed both my kids for almost a year. I got cancer anyway.

If you want to diminish your stress because you want to feel better: fine. Try doing yoga or tai chi or meditation. Visualize yourself in a beautiful garden surrounded by fragrant roses. Only people who give you love and energy are allowed in. As soon as someone gives you stress, you have a small remote control device with which you can zap them away. They end up behind the roses, without knowing what happened to them. This garden is the place where you can relax. If you want it to be filled with flowers, it is. If you want a ski-slope, or a pool, or a meadow full of horses, that's how it is. Make it your ideal place. And practice this every day. The more often you do it, the better it makes you feel.

Don't feel guilty if you need time away from it all. You will feel better after your relaxation exercises so you will be able to support your Mom and yourself.

Hugs

Jacqueline