Dear Tim:

You are welcome, and thank you for your appreciation, and for wishing me well. Regarding my previous advice to you, on this thread- I think that you needed more empathy at the time than what I expressed. When we are hurting emotionally or when we are anxious, the only thing we urgently need is empathy.

You didn’t ask me for any advice yesterday, and you probably don’t need it, but it can’t hurt to express it anyway: when you hurt next, when you get anxious next, view yourself kindly, as a person worthy of empathy, as a person that needs your own gentleness and kindness.

anita