At least one T has said that to me, too, maybe all three of them. Definitely a repeat statement in the support group I was a part of. There was something about sitting in a circle, looking at the others, watching someone absorb these words among the kindness surrounding her, that starts to really loosen and crack that stuff enough to begin to let it ago.

I can imagine such a virtual circle here, and it makes me weepy. But that statement still makes me feel like I'm 10 years old again, stuck in the muck of it all, when there was nothing left to do but take it all on again.