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This might sound hokey but with my own illness (diagnoses Fibromyalgia at 29) I’ve read a lot of Beene Brown. Her technique to help with this is that whenever you get scared because you’re enjoying life and you’re afraid it could end, instead remind yourself to be grateful. Like when you feel that anxiety starting to creep in, try to stop and mentally say I am so grateful for this awesome moment and lean into the positive feelings. It’s hard at first because fear is a really dominant emotion, but just saying it to yourself, even if you’re not sure you believe it, can help disrupt the anxiety and if you keep practicing it you will start to feel it.

Just curious was this before or after the Affordable Care Act?

My mother had breast cancer when I was 3 and my brother was 1. Her oncologists told her no more babies after that. This was early 90s and she’d had both of us through c-sections.