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Once, after a particularly difficult time in my life, a friend pulled me into a hug, squeezed me tight, and said, “You have to embrace it – the good, the bad, and the ugly – and make something good out of it.”
At the time, I thought that a nice big glass of wine and a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia ice cream sounded like a better idea, but the truth of her words still hit me like a pound of bricks.
I think of it now as being in the mud. If you’ve ever lost a loved one, struggled in a relationship, found yourself clinging on by a thread, or generally just not able to catch a break of any kind, you know what it’s like to be in the mud.