I think we should call March the KINDNESS MONTH. We can take the time to listen to people who are suffering on the inside, where it does not show. There are millions of people living daily with acute medical problems that are invisible to others. Having gone through cancer I can attest to this. No one knew I was sick until my hair fell out, creating a visible sign of my illness. During this time I met people at the hospital who looked as though they had just come from a spa treatment, not radiation.

As we are repeatedly told that we look and sound fine, many of us feel guilty about being sick. We talk ourselves into believing that we must be doing something wrong because we are not beating it. The cultural message is that we have the ability to be healthy and it is up to us to pull ourselves together.

What I suffered from was not a chronic illness, but it seemed to take me a long time to recover from it. I used Melissa and Frankincense in my diffuser and had them diffusing most of the time. These are both very calming, anti-depressant and sedative essential oils.