Dear Nina:

I like your attitude and resolution. When you are in their presence, especially your uncle’s, expect a likely automatic anxious physical response. Resolutions don’t prevent those. When you notice, calm yourself, repeat this resolution to yourself. Do say to yourself that you survived his words in the past, that you are okay and will be okay regardless of what he says. See him as just another person, so the words he says are not from an entity other than a .. person.

anita