@Amy Keith love that 'Music is in our family's blood' it can be so profound and can take you back to a super coping moment that we can map on a new moment and as you mention the same song can take on a completely different meaning depending on where you are in life ❤️ Another little share here, I often find it fascinating how when you are struggling, concentrating, a little unsure, or finding something tricky those that are audio aware, suddenly find a song in their heads to get them through that moment! Sounds bizarre, right, where I once worked, my two colleagues would default to: Indiana Jones them tune - when they had to see something through The A Team theme tune - when they needed to concentrate neither knew where the song came from and how they recalled it, yet at some point in their lives way back it must have served a purpose!

@Alexia Stephanie Greavu Thats great insight, and by far supports a future you. We are all a work in progress, an unfinished masterpiece, a draft, a black and white picture, until we learn to colour it the way we need for us. I aim for steps these days rather than the result, and cheer lead those steps for sure 😀

@Alexia Stephanie Greavu Absolutely! its remembering to do it too. Then I guess until we make it a normal occurrence, we will swing back and forth for a while. There is a comfort some where in the yes.

Hey Keith, What a clear and concise opener of what this area is about, I feel we can all relate to your story and your growth mindset. It was a pleasure to catch up with both Amy and yourself the other day. So here goes about me; I’m Lynne I live just outside Ely north of Cambridge I’ve been living with chronic illness most of my life, allergic asthma from 6 months, EGPA Vasculitis for 19 years. We have no control of the hand we are dealt. We do have control of what we do with that hand. I echo your journey Keith and I for a while would mourn my old life and what I had, yet reflecting back I am the person I am today because of it all. I consider myself to be a resilient person, optimistic and forever challenging the status quo. I’m a believer that there is always a key to something even if we don’t know what it is yet. I’m currently building my own coaching business around how our emotions play such an important part of our life’s journey and how by noticing, naming and normalising them we get to choose different way and reframe our outdated beliefs. I work with kids in school too (hey I was the rebel I never thought I’d go back to school!) but I work with teens struggling to make sense of emotions, their challenges of beliefs and ultimately I come across many who have the added challenges of chronic illness too. Pleased to be here, thank you again Keith and Amy for inviting me along.

@Amy Keith I’m looking forward to welcoming and hearing how others have shaped their journeys and how our stories start to become our stepping stones to growing in a way that we perhaps never imagined. Many of us have perhaps lived a life of ‘super coping!’ Now is the turn for super feeling and taking back a renewed power

@L M I hear you on this one, I too have done the same. I have enjoyed the day mind 👏😀

@L M that’s a really interesting observation and would love to learn more ? I wonder if you started your own thread on here it may prompt other people’s input to their journeys too. We evolve through illness and learn new ways. We also perhaps mourn what was, what has been and not fully sure whats yet to come. I personally wouldn’t be who I am today without a chronic illness stopping me in my tracks, making me take stock of my life, digging into depths I never knew I needed to dig into and realising thst if I’d have listened sooner I may have been on another path yet if I hadn’t had this journey I wouldn’t be me now.