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Judy and her staff are available to clients by calling 1-800-238-7828 Services include: reimbursement counseling and help locating financial assistance programs, assistance identifying support groups & services, and always, an understanding ear.

The emotions of anger, sorrow and pain are often the baggage which come along with a chronic condition. If you are living with a chronic illness, you know how real and deep these feelings may be. There isn't a magic formula to quickly move beyond the anger, sorrow and pain. Sometimes after you allow yourself to experience the darker emotions, it often helps to find a bright spot.

You may discover that you already own some bright spots to which you may flee. And that you can create many more. If you make your face smile, often your heart will smile, too.

If I asked you to close your eyes and go to a warm or fun memory that you own, I believe you could. Some of you may visualize clearly your eldest child's first birthday party . . . your first ride on a roller coaster . . . the way Aunt Katie's pull-apart rolls smelled and tasted . . . how soft your grandmother's hands felt when she washed your hands . . . the sweetness of your first kiss . . . or the blaze of azalea color in the springtime of your childhood front yard.

Chances are you already own these and can go back to them any time you want. Going through your family photograph album will bring back many more bright flashes of good memories. Then you can make some bright spots.

Take a bubble bath. Walk in the woods. Read a book in a quiet corner. Wash your car in the park.

Sit on the porch swing. Read to someone else. Write a letter. Simmer cinnamon or vanilla in your kitchen. Plant a flower. Walk the dog. Visit someone in a nursing home. Read up on the political candidates. Say a prayer. Pet a puppy. Visit a church or synagogue. Put all those photos in the family album. Put flowers on the table. Give a toast.

Watch the baby birds in the nest outside your door learn to fly. Write a family tree or family history for your children. Play a game of gin rummy. Organize your tackle box. Share a cup of coffee with a neighbor. Mend a fence in your yard.

"Mend a fence" with someone you've had a disagreement with. Play charades. Listen to the quiet sounds of your home. Fly a kite. Rediscover the delicate, tiny purple flowers that grow silently on the shady side of the woods. Embrace the world with all of its small and large and sometimes cleverly hidden, bright spots. These are the creations . . . you are the creator . . . the moments in time that you are in charge of. They are like money in the bank . . . lasagna in the freezer . . . worth a million dollars and they feed your heart and soul. Go to them often. . . it will become easier and easier to find the way there.

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