🧜♀️ Rainbow-colored scales are kind of her armor: Heather is not taking someone else's trauma.
02:37👧 Caregiving and forgiveness as two pillars of her life: Heather was a caregiver from the age of nine.
03:17🛌 Being diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and POTS at 30: life completely changed for her.
04:51🥊 Having a chronic condition is an ongoing fight: accepting your new normal and giving yourself time to grieve. 07:44
🤗 The importance of self-compassion and forgiveness: treat ourselves just like you would a friend.
09:28🌟 Life is beautifully brutal: all the good that came out of the traumatic events in Heather’s life.
10:48✨ Really knowing and trusting yourself and your voice: showing your vulnerability opens other people towards you.
14:50😁 When you can joke about yourself it shows that acceptance occurred.
16:37🎯 Asking ourselves why something bad happened to us is not serving us at all: accept, release and move on.
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