Positivity Pause - #MotivationMonday - 🚶🏾‍♀Walk Fearlessly🚶🏼‍♀

🌞 It’s #MotivationMonday, and it's time for your #PositivityPause! 🌞

TAKE a moment to inhale for a count of 3, hold for a count of 3, exhale for a count of 3🧘🏽‍♀🧘🏼‍♂🧘🏾

🚶🏾‍♀Walk Fearlessly🚶🏼‍♀

😇👩🏽‍⚕One of the blessings of being a physician is the opportunity to hear patient stories that inspire and motivate.

🙏🏾When I met my 89 yo patient for the first time a few months ago, she shared that she lost her husband in one of the 911 planes🙏🏾
🕊 As the family hugged each other during their grief, one of her first declarations was that they would not walk in fear.
☮ She also knew that her husband was a man of peace and she made it her life’s mission to unite families that lost loved ones in 911 to advocate for peace around the world. She started the Al Filipone Peace and Justice Forum and joined the September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. 
🔥 The common purpose and meaning that she ignited was therapeutic for those families and facilitated building of bonds which helped them know they were not alone in their grief journey, and they could work together to effect change. Her work has been incredibly impactful, and her buoyant spirit and courage filled me with such joy and hope🌺.

If she can do it, by golly, SO CAN WE!!!!

⏸Take a PAUSE to open your hearts and minds to how other people’s journeys can motivate and inspire you to walk WITHOUT fear! 💝You never know when you will meet someone whose story touches you in the most meaningful way. 
💞So, don’t rush through life. Stop and listen to stories around you help encourage you so that even in the most dire of circumstances, you can make a choice to gird up with COURAGE and RESOLVE and walk FEARLESSLY 🙏🏾

Shared with patient permission.