The power of an advocate.

How a listening ear, helping hand and support system creates a safe place for to keep fighting with even more tenacity.

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Meaning of advocate:

Supports (underline)

For the first time I felt loved through the emotional pain. I felt supported and like I wasn’t crazy and all that I’m going through someone can relate. Someone that can relate and show support. Someone inside the boxing bring with me. Them taking a punch and telling me to hold on and what to do next before the next punch goes my way. No longer did I feel like I’m in a fish bowl and everyone looking into the fish bowl or passing me by. I felt hope. A hope that didn’t just come from within as I lay on the ground beaten up and bloody. But a hope from someone that is pushing through like me. I wasn’t on survival mode but we got this together mode. A when you fall I’ll pick you up and hold you and take you through the forest because I know where all the pitfalls are.

Your guiding hand whether it be through someone you’ve already come out of or are going through is priceless to someone else.

Offer questions to ask the doctor

Offer a list of questions to ask yourself while going through the disease