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“Self-care is how you take your power back.”– Lalah Delia

At  some point along my journey it became clear that most of the time I  operated on emotion. I’d grown up watching others engage emotionally, no  other way was known.

Then life began to educate me.

One  of the first things to go when operating out of this mindset is  self-care. I can think of story after story, times when fuzzy-headed  from emotional turmoil, decisions were made that cost me something.  Sometimes the cost was trivial and other times it was and still is  life-altering.

Warning: The next paragraph contains some graphic descriptions of events.

Once,  while on my way to work in Philadelphia, I was stuck in slow moving  traffic behind a semi-truck. Suddenly, I noticed a passenger door open  on a car in front of me, next to the big rig. A young woman appeared  from the back seat of a taxi-cab stepping into the roadway.

What happened next is one thing to read a story about, It’s a whole other thing to witness in person.

The  woman hurled herself under the semi truck in front of me. She  disappeared from my sight as I saw the semi lurch forward and then raise  up and back down like it had hit a speed bump.

A  poor woman had timed it perfectly, ending her own life right there, one  car length away from me. I think of her often even though the event  happened over 30 years ago.

Her  action set hundreds of other little events and emotional reactions into  motion for many people. I was a stringer for a local newspaper at the  time. Clearly, this was a news story. I struggled with the personal  nature of it and as a result, never took a picture even though my gear  was in the trunk.

What  had she been dealing with? Had she made a split second decision in that  very moment and acted? Or, had her misery been ongoing and it was all  premeditated? Could the HALT method have save her life?

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