So I just wanted to start off by saying thank you for being somebody to reach out to because I don't think I would be as , I mean , I'm , I'm not calm right now but get through it . And I think it's important to acknowledge your feelings , acknowledge where you're at and to have somebody that you can trust and share . And so thank you for being that for me to clarify .
But that doesn't mean that later I won't be and then 20 minutes from now even better . So I just think one thing that I'm learning to do is to not put a band aid on anything to feel everything I need to feel , to not distract me totally , but to like feel the pain that I have been blessed with because I know every event is a learning lesson and that I can understand more people and connect with more people because people have lost and they lose parents and I lost mine way too young . But like , I , I was able to connect with an incredible person the other day who now I told you about who has this incredible breast cancer awareness event .
And there are tools in this book that could help anybody . So if I'm hearing this right , it's like you want to become aware of the bleeding within yourself because once you have the awareness , then it's now you can take care of it definitely consciousness , awareness , acknowledgement and then making basic choices , like nurturing your inner child that needs help because sometimes we could be just really , really , really tired . We just need to take a nap .
So I think after COVID , my , my clients , my , my family , my friends myself , uh I wrote the book during COVID because I realized life is so precious . And I need to understand what I could provide for myself because as a therapist , I mean , Michelle you myself , we are human and , and I have days that I'm just in the ground crying and II I get myself up one minute at a time , you know , and it's journaling . It's all in the book , mindfulness , meditation , walking , moving my body , listening to good music and just acknowledging my own discomfort at that moment , that's rep parenting is because as a man or a woman , it doesn't matter our caregivers , my mom , your mom , I'm not judging anybody because they knew what they knew and we are here to just embrace the change and be the change .
I mean , but you know , it's , it's just human needs and , and , and we need to handle what's going on and really have a community or people , family , friends , professionals to help us to gain the confidence we need so we could help ourselves when the professionals are not around . And honestly , that's all we've been doing some deep breathing , some repenting , some inner child healing , some prayers , meditation , journaling . It's a combination of , it's like a Disneyland .
